вторник, 10 июня 2014 г.

The Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications legalizes rent of wires


Offered the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications new amendments to the law "About Communication"

Today the wire in a multicore cable is not object of property. Operators cannot share communication channels, and it interferes  with liberalization of a telecom market.
The separate wire in an electric cable of communication or separate fiber in optical  can be bought, sold or leased. Offered such amendments to the law "About Communication" to the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications. Now "object of the real rights" is only the cable in general – and operators have no legal opportunity to share it.
– Now physical chains (electric wires, optical fibers) are considered  as indivisible part of the mounted communication cable, – explained in the ministry. – Because of it operators have no opportunity to lease physical chains, and also to carry out other transactions. With adoption of this bill this legal gap will be eliminated.
Department wants to legalize long ago the situation which developed de facto, the representative of one of large communications operators declared. For example, builders of the residential area lay cables and sell them on separate wires. As a rule, costs of servicing and emergency recovery operations are compensated  by operators in proportion to a share in the general cable.
– Amendments will promote development of the competition in the telecommunication  market and to creating favorable conditions for activity of operators, – consider in "Akado Telecom". – But the measure of responsibility of each owner  of a physical chain in one cable, for example, in case of emergencies and carrying out recovery work  is not clear.
Today in Russia there are historically developed "cable monopolists". For example, at MGTS in Moscow about 80 thousand kanalokilometr  of wires  underground are laid. In other regions primary position is held by "Rostelecom".
– If these norms were accepted a few years ago, they would be much more effective, – Denis Kuskov, the general director of analytical agency TelecomDaily declared.
In general MGTS positively estimates this legislative initiative, reported in the press service of the company. But the company now develops in Moscow a new  network – on the GPON technology, and it "will not be focused on business on leasing of separate communication channels".
The offered amendments are aimed at simplification of access for operators to infrastructure, the representative of one more operator told. They can be not too effective in Moscow and St. Petersburg, where quite high penetration  of broadband Internet access. But will be useful to regional operators who will be able to rent communication channels at the large main – such as "Rostelecom" and "Transtelekom".
As for possible accidents, now they are eliminated by the owner of a cable,  the interlocutor  explained. After adoption of amendments of the relation between the owner of a cable  and those who rents fibers in it, and have to be regulated by the contract.
Opportunity to acquire necessary part of cable infrastructure will promote increase of cost of the operator companies,  "Akado Telecom's"  representative reminded.

Alexander Bogdanov
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