Regulator turns down TPSA's latest access proposals

TPSA, the country's biggest fixed-line phone operator, has been unable to reach agreement with the Telecommunication and Postal Regulation Office (URTiP) regarding the former's framework offer which would regulate the conditions under which it would provide other operators with access to its network. The latest offer prepared by TPSA was turned down by URTiP as it would give the operator "a thousand procedural obstacles to prevent other operators from using its network". TPSA would see each operator willing to use its cables sign a separate contract for each of the services it would provide - local and long distance calls, international calls etc. Moreover, independent operators would have to construct 12 connection points between their network and TPSA's. According to URTiP, TPSA's offer would give it a dominant position in the sector and slow down market liberalization. (Puls Biznesu, p. 7) J.K.