Plum has carried out a study for Arcep, the French telecommunications regulator, looking at the impacts of the regulatory structure deployed for fibre networks in France. Our report describes the regulatory framework, which Arcep terms as “symmetric” as it requires any operator deploying an optical fibre local loop to grant all reasonable requests for access from third-party operators to access that network’s lines.

With increasing demand for spectrum, and a (physics-constrained) finite amount available, there is increasing pressure for users to share spectrum holdings via a variety of different methods - geographic, temporal, or dynamic. In most cases this is achieved through the identification of primary and secondary uses and users. With this sharing paradigm, however, there is an unresolved question of fees - should secondary users be expected to pay fees, and if so, how much?

This year's FTTH Council Europe Annual Conference will take place in Amsterdam at the end of March. This is the leading broadband event in Europe, with many tracks devoted not only to technology, but also to policy, commercial strategies and much more. Plum Consulting is proud to be an Analyst Partner of the event, and as such will be present in the person of Benoit Felten, Plum Partner and recognized FTTH expert.

Increasing difficulties with time-critical non-terrestrial communications, submarine connectivity damage, just-in-time manufacturing dependencies and delivery logistics have all been issues of concern over the last year. International political and geographic events have required companies and individuals the world over to adjust processes and expectations on the speed and quality of manufacturing and information flows.A Plum investigation has revealed troubling information regarding one well-established MNO (Merry Nöel Operator) for which time-critical logistics is particularly important at this time of year. We discuss this burning issue in this special festive Insight (sincere apologies for any sleigh-boured puns).

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