The Ministry of Communications wants to neutralize Bezeq's advantage being infrastructure companies

Posted on Feb 11, 2020 by Ifi Reporter - Dan Bielski

The Ministry of Communications has published another hearing aimed at neutralizing Bezeq's advantage in the information that comes from being infrastructure companies, compared to service companies such as Partner and Cellcom that use these infrastructures.
Under the heading "Asymmetry in Infrastructure Information Hearing", the firm publishes a new plan whereby any changes that Bezeq and Hot would like to make on their network will require advance coordination and advance notice. In addition, the infrastructure companies will be required to announce their deployment plans in advance to allow Partner and Cellcom to know in advance where they intend to deploy so that they can deploy there themselves. The determination comes to balance Bezeq and Hot's ability as infrastructure companies, who know where their competitors are going to deploy infrastructure and can seemingly advance deployment in those places.
Bezeq and Hot have not yet deployed fiber optic, so the hearing is actually another security belt for the office to make sure that any competitive advantage of the infrastructure companies will be eliminated when deploying infrastructure in the future, and once the deployment plan is finalized by the communications ministry.
According to the firm with the infrastructure (Bezeq or Hot) exposed to all the deployment plans of competing service providers. Service providers wishing to deploy their infrastructure within the existing infrastructure of the infrastructure owner are obliged to present and approve the retirement plans, and therefore the infrastructure owners are exposed to the service providers' deployment plans, the rate of deployment, the scope of connected structures and so on. In this information, a built-in advantage is created for the infrastructure owner who can make strategic use of this information, among other things, by adjusting his deployment plans in a way that may impair the competitiveness of his competitors.
To this end, the Ministry intends to increase the advance notice time for the service companies where the infrastructure companies are committed before any change in the network from 60 days to 90 days. In addition, any material change will require a 180 day advance notice compared to 90 today.
The hearing also states that the infrastructure companies will be required to publish on their site where they intend to deploy fiber every 3 months, as stated so that Partner and Cellcom can know their deployment plans.


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