F2C Speaker Benoît Felton interviewed
Telephony Online has an article featuring Benoît Felton about a global report issued by the Yankee Group Dec. 31. Felton points out that
While incumbents remain convinced that open access or wholesale models won’t enable them to earn a return on their investment, regulators would prefer open access models, said Benoît Felten, senior analyst with Yankee Group and author of “Fiber to the World: A State of the Union Report on FTTH,” along with co-author Vince Vittore. In the report, Felten advises regulators to be more decisive, choose a model for regulating next-generation access networks and move on, since regulatory uncertainty is almost guaranteed to slow investment in new networks.
“I think the core issue especially right now with [the economic] crisis going on is that the regulators are under a lot of pressure, moral and governmental, not to hit the big guys,” Felten said. “But if you want to ensure competition in a new market from day one, you have to take a tough stand. At the end of the day, a solution is not going to come from regulators, it will come from competition.”
Mr. Felton will be speaking at F2C09 on The State of The Fibersphere. Check out our (evolving) agenda for more.
