"This would allow us to take into account the economic inefficiencies that result from maintaining two networks in parallel."“This could lead to a new incentive for long-established operators to submit a decommissioning plan and implement it as quickly as possible,” writes EU Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton in a draft text for a Brussels government recommendation on “regulatory support for gigabit connectivity.” If the prices of copper-based services, such as DSL, were to converge with those of fiber optics, end users and competing internet service providers could be incentivized to switch to a gigabit network.

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