Norway's Altibox will begin studying options for allowing third-party providers access to its full fiber network, its owner Lyse Group revealed. Toril Nag, executive vice president of Lyse Telecom Group, said that after internal discussions, it was agreed that it made sense to start looking at possible solutions for third-party access. However, the executive stressed that work in this area has not really started yet, adding that "it's too early to talk about what such a solution would look like.
Nonetheless, in making public the intent to begin researching wholesale options, it was suggested that the next step would be to hold discussions with the infrastructure owners that make up the Altibox partnership to see how to create a "customer" - a third-party access solution that meets [the group's] strict requirements for security, robustness and customer-friendliness. friendly solutions.
Also note that Altibox will be in close dialogue with the authorities regarding its work in this area, and that the local telecommunications regulator, the National Communications Authority (Nasjonal kommunikasjonsmyndighet, Nkom), has responded positively to plans to review wholesale solutions . In its own media release, Nkom director Pal Wien Espen was quoted as saying: "Freedom of choice is important for a well-functioning market. It is gratifying that the industry itself now sees the open web as a sustainable model for both the business itself and society.
