Brussels, 05/02/2001 (Agence Europe) - ECTA, the European Competitive Telecommunications Association, which advocates competition, recently published a scoreboard showing the relevant success of different EU Member States in opening up their local loops. ECTA Director Phil Evans notes that "despite the EU Regulation which came into force at the beginning of the year, and which required regulators to open up incumbent operators' networks, new entrants are still being kept out of most European...