Properties of dark fiber

The liberalization of the telecom in our country, which Telefónica would like to see in its incursions into Europe, reaches its critical point this time given the political tension that exists in Spain ahead of the general elections next December 20. It will be then when the CNMC is suspended with a proposal that will force the dominant operator to transfer the dark fiber network to the rest of the competitors at a price previously set by the regulator. The requirement will be extended to all the national territory except nine municipalities where the supervisory body assumes that there is already a sufficient level of competition: Madrid, Barcelona, ​​Alcalá de Henares, Badalona, ​​Coslada, Malaga, Móstoles, Seville and Valencia. The single regulatory body, constituted two years ago, acts as a counterbalancing element towards the inevitable oligopoly of oligarchy that exists in the main network industries in Spain. The CNMC establishes a parallelism between the oil and electric sector, and from there it launches an extrapolation to the whole of telecommunications until it concludes that the exploitation of public services from only three operators is a danger to competition and the consequent reduction of the price levels that consumers pay. In short, the proposal on the well-known markets 3a, 3b and 4 of broadband should facilitate the access of some other guest to the cake that is now shared by Telefónica, Vodafone and Orange.