OCU believes: the decision of the CNMC Great news for Telefónica, bad news for consumers

OCU believes that at least the supply of fiber Neba indirect, fiber 30mb currently Telefónica paid to third parties in Spain, should be maintained in the "competitive" areas as already happens with the enterprise market, given the evidence that many households they will not enjoy the advantages of the existence of an alternative and more competition network.

OCU says that for example while in the enterprise market is imposed on Movistar obliged to offer indirect access fiber and copper to third companies, in the residential sector consumers will see limited their choice to withdraw Movistar some of its obligations providing their networks to third-party operators. OCU believes that this situation can clearly harm consumers in certain cities.

Currently Telefónica, as an operator with significant market power, has a number of obligations on the fiber network deployment. Specifically, the only obligation for these new networks was the obligation to sell a service fiber 30MB (indirect fiber) in OCU we know that some companies were already offering their clients. On the other hand any company started installing fiber in a building, should provide affordable access to the fiber to new operators who want to install fiber also in that building.

For OCU news of the decision of the CNMC are mainly three:

Movistar is obliged to provide its network to third parties at reasonable prices rather than cost price, which is how far worked for the copper network.

It has gone from 34 municipalities to 66 cities, which account for 35% of the population, where Movistar will not lend its fiber network.

Movistar will no longer have an obligation to resell their products within only 6 months for those services that were provided by indirect access (either by means of copper or the NEBA fiber 30 MB), this affects 758 telephone exchanges ( 58% of the lines of Spain).

These are the municipalities declared as competitive Movistar and therefore will not have to provide direct fiber access to third party companies: 

Albacete, Alboraya, Alcalá de Guadaira, Alcalá de Henares, Alcorcón, Alicante, Almeria, Alzira, Arganda del Rey, Badalona, ​​Barcelona, ​​Burgos, Cádiz, Castellón de la Plana, Cerdanyola del Valles, Córdoba, Cornellà de Llobregat, Coslada, Dos Hermandas, Elx, Fuengirola, Fuenlabrada, Getafe, Gijón, Granada, Granollers, Guadalajara, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Huelva, Jaén, Jerez de la Frontera, Leganés, León, Lleida, Logroño, Madrid, Málaga, Mataró, Mislata, Móstoles , Murcia, Oviedo, Palencia, Parla, Paterna, Pinto, Reus, Las Rozas de Madrid, Sabadell, Salamanca, Sant Vicent del Raspeig, Sant Adrià, Santa Coloma de Gramenet, Sevilla, Tavernes Blanques, Terrassa, Toledo, Torrejón de Ardoz, Torrent, Valdemoro, Valencia, Valladolid, Vigo, Vilafranca, Vila-real and Zaragoza. 

OCU says that we should not forget the fact that a municipality has been declared as a competitive wants not say that the offer reaches all homes enjoy the competition. In fact you only have 20% of the population has at least the network operators to be so declared. So many homes have limited their offer to one or two operators maximum. 

OCU warns that the fact that rental prices of these new lines are not cost-oriented not provide competitive prices.