Press Release: Telecoms: Commission clears amended nationwide Spanish broadband regulations; maintains concerns on lack of high-speed remedies

The European Commission gave, with reservations, a green light to the Spanish draft regulation on wholesale broadband access, notified by the Spanish regulator, the Comisión del mercado de las telecomunicaciones ('CMT') on 4 December 2008. The Commission believes that the revised version of the draft measures addressed some of the issues on which the Commission had expressed serious doubts. However, the Commission still believes that regulation of wholesale broadband access should not be limited to speeds of up to 30 Mb/s. On the basis of the Commission's presently limited powers of oversight, it could only invite the CMT to change its regulatory approach in this regard.