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Ireland (country regulation overview)

Publication Date June 2009
Publisher Ovum
Product Type Report
Pages 24
ISBN Number not applicable
Product Code OVM00184
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Summary

In June 2003 ComReg awarded 70 organisations with general and basic licences to provide telecoms network services in Ireland. However, Irish incumbent Eircom remains in a strong market position.

Content

  • Overview
  • Fixed market overview
  • Mobile market overview
  • Broadband market overview
  • Mobile broadband
  • National regulatory authority
  • Key legislation and regulation
  • Mobile licensing
  • 3G licences
  • Retail regulation
  • Retail regulation obligations
  • VoIP regulation
  • Wholesale fixed regulation
  • Services subject to regulation
  • Narrowband voice interconnection
  • Fixed wholesale call origination
  • Fixed wholesale call termination
  • Basis for setting charges
  • Procedure for setting and reviewing charges
  • Format of charges
  • Fixed number portability
  • Wholesale access
  • Wholesale line rental (WLR)
  • Bundling regulation
  • Local loop unbundling
  • Wholesale broadband services
  • Next-generation networks
  • Wholesale mobile regulation
  • Mobile operators' obligations
  • Mobile termination charges
  • 3 Ireland
  • Mobile origination access and MVNOs
  • Mobile number portability
  • Services subject to regulation
  • Spectrum policy
  • Liberalisation of GSM900 bands
  • Digital dividend
  • Spectrum release for wireless broadband
  • Other bands: recent and current spectrum release
  • Competition cases
  • Cases pending
  • Universal service
  • Universal service obligations
  • National broadband scheme
  • Appendix
  • The EC's market definitions
  • List of Tables
    • Table 1: Broadband subscribers in Ireland
    • Table 2: 3G licences issued in Ireland
    • Table 3: Mobile operators in Ireland (4Q08)
    • Table 4: Summary of deregulation on retail fixed calls market
    • Table 5: Fixed line sector: services subject to regulation
    • Table 6: Glidepath for Vodafone, Meteor and O2: target blended maximum MTRs (??? cents)
    • Table 7: Target blended maximum MTRs for 3 Ireland (??? cents)
    • Table 8: Mobile sector: services subject to regulation
    • Table 9: 3 Ireland broadband speeds in NBS area
    • Table 10: Required rollout schedule
    • Table 11: The EC's definition of seven markets to be analysed
  • List of Figures
    • Figure 1: Liberalisation of GSM 900MHz spectrum in Ireland
    • Figure 2: Spectrum released in 26GHz in 2008
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