Business Connectivity Market Review
- Start: 01 April 2014
- Status: Closed
- End: 27 May 2014
We completed the most recent Business Connectivity Market review in March 2013 (BCMR 2013) when we published our Statement. The BCMR 2013 considered the markets for:
- the retail provision of leased lines in the UK; and
- the wholesale provision of terminating segments and trunk segments in the UK.
We are now undertaking the next Business Connectivity Market review (BCMR 2016). Our market review process involves three analytical stages:
- to identify and define the relevant markets, appropriate to the national circumstances in the UK, under the regulatory framework harmonised across the EU;
- to determine whether or not any of the markets are effectively competitive. This involves assessing whether any operator has significant market power (SMP) in any of those relevant markets; and
- where there has been a finding of SMP, to assess the appropriate remedies which should be imposed, based on the nature of the competition problem(s) identified in the relevant markets or, where we determine that a market is effectively competitive, to remove regulation that currently applies to that market.
These analytical stages are the same as those we carried out in the BCMR 2013 and in the other two previous Business Connectivity Market reviews. We set out an overview of the market review process, and how it fits within the relevant regulatory framework, in Annex 2 to the BCMR 2013 Statement.
Although most of the markets under this market review will most likely concern services at the wholesale level, these services are an important input to a wide range of retail services including retail leased lines, broadband services and mobile services. Consequently decisions taken here will ultimately affect prices, choice and availability of services in these retail markets.
Main documents
Responses
| Responder name | Type |
|---|---|
| British_Telecommunications_PLC.pdf (PDF File, 713.5 KB) | Organisation |
| BSKYB.pdf (PDF File, 150.9 KB) | Organisation |
| City_of_London_Corporation.pdf (PDF File, 20.7 KB) | Organisation |
| COLT_Technology_Services.pdf (PDF File, 1.2 MB) | Organisation |
| Combined_response.pdf (PDF File, 344.0 KB) | Organisation |