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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 7940
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/telecommunications

Liikanen presses Member States to open competition to last meters of cable

Luxembourg, 05/04/2001 (Agence Europe) - Commissioner Erkki Liikanen, responsible for the information society, on Wednesday deplored the fact that "the unbundling of the local loop was going too slow and inadequately". He noted that only 7 Member States offered complete access to the last meters of telephone cables and none offered shared access, whereas the regulation on the unbundling of the local loop took effect on 1 January 2001. Mr. Liikanen wanted the Fifteen to put more pressure on...

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