Last year BT agreed with telecoms watchdog Ofcom to legally separate its network division Openreach — around a decade after a functional separation has been imposed by the regulator.
Next, we tested whether all measured biophysical parameters of individual birth-dated ABGCs can cooperatively predict the functional separation at the level of the gain of their input output functions.
And she accused opponents of functional separation of special pleading.
Under the proposals, a European authority made up of national regulators could enforce functional separation.
Functional separation is not the right answer to encourage this risky investment".
During the 1880s, that functional separation began to break down.
The European Competitive Telecommunications Association, a trade group, said it welcomed the proposals, specifically the possibility of a form of "functional separation" similar to what Britain has adopted.
"She opposed the remedy of functional separation, and seems to favor market forces taking precedence over regulation," Mr. Bartholomew said.
Ms. Reding emphasized her determination to encourage greater competition in the market and to give regulators the power to force "functional separation" — obliging the owners of telecommunications networks to free the networks from their operating divisions.
And asked when half the European Union would match United States broadband penetration rates, she replied, "With independent regulators who are not afraid to use the remedy of functional separation where other solutions don't work, we will be there by 2010".
One possibility is that Telstra will agree to the "functional separation" of its retail and wholesale business, replicating the deal struck in 2005 in Britain between BT and its regulator, Ofcom.
