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Telecommunications Axia - the dark horse in the $600m broadband Connect Infrastructure race.
Telecommunications Axia - the dark horse in the $600m broadband Connect Infrastructure race. | Axia - the dark horse in the $600m broadband Connect Infrastructure race. |
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| by Stuart Corner | |
| Wednesday, 16 May 2007 | |
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Page 3 of 3 Axia bid for Axia operates these networks in France through Covage, a 50/50 partnership with Vinci Networks. According to Price it has won 12 concessions serving 4.3 million people and 100,000 businesses in more than 2000 communities using a mixture of FTTP, FTTC, PON, WiFi and WiMax. He claimed that France Telecom had not won a single concession where it had competed with Covage. Featured Whitepaper
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And he warned that this should not be compromised "by believing that the Government can either out-negotiate the incumbent or [by giving] the incumbent the fibre monopoly and hoping that Government can regulate the incumbent into 'neutrality' if the incumbent (or anyone else) is also allowed to participate in the ASP or retail services sector." According to price "No government has accomplished this feat [of neutrality]; the profit motive is too dominant and the issue is too complex."{moscomment} |
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