Relevant market - Telecommunications: The French Competition Authority gives an opinion, as requested by the ART (Telecommunication Authority), analyzing the fixed telephony retail and wholesale markets

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. When analysing the fixed telephony markets, in order to assess the (ex ante) "regulability" of the markets identified in this way, is it necessary to take into consideration the pressure on the that may be exercised by alternative offers to the classic fixed-line telephony offers (subscription + calls), which gives access to unlimited telephony via ADSL (in broadband access - VoB - Voice on Broadband) based on IP technology? This pressure of unlimited telephony via ADSL on fixed telephony is it sufficient to consider them as belonging to the same relevant