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ARTICLE · 30 JANUARY 2014

Managed VoIP – Making Waves In The Fixed Voice Access Market

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A year on from ComReg’s October 2012 Market Review of the fixed voice access market, ComReg has followed up with a Supplementary Consultation.

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A year on from ComReg's October 2012 Market Review of the fixed voice access ("FVA") market, ComReg has followed up with a Supplementary Consultation (ComReg 13/95). Both of these initiatives follow on from ComReg's 2007 market analysis which identified two markets for FVA services:

(i) Lower Level Voice Access or 'LLVA' (PSTN and ISDN Basic Rate Access ie, traditional telephony networks); and

(ii) Higher Level Voice Access or 'HLVA' (Business ISDN Primary Rate Access and Fractional Rate Access).  Eircom has significant market power (SMP) in both markets and is subject to wholesale and retail obligations.

In its October 2012 Market Review however, ComReg proposed to broaden the LLVA market to include fixed voice access via 'Managed VoIP' over a broadband connection, as ComReg considered this to be functionally similar to the traditional PSTN / ISDN voice service. 

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