Press Release: Telecoms: Commission approves Italian regulator’s plans to boost competition in the Italian terminating segments of leased lines market

The European Commission has approved the draft plans of AGCOM, the Italian telecoms regulator, to regulate terminating segments of leased lines in Italy except for connections where mobile network operators have replicated Telecom Italia's infrastructure or could easily do so. In a letter sent on 7 December 2009, the Commission endorsed AGCOM's proposals, asking it to remove regulation only after a transition period long enough for mobile operators to eliminate remaining bottlenecks in their networks.

This is the 1000th notification to which the European Commission has responded under the "Article 7" procedure of European Telecoms rules. Since 2003 this consultative process has guaranteed a competitive and consistently regulated single European telecoms markets for consumers and businesses.