Fixed Internet Liberation Operation

 According to Eqtesad Online, quoting Hamshahri, a few days ago, the Minister of Communications and Information Technology announced the approval of the bill "Reclaiming channels, ducts and telecommunication basins from Iran Telecommunication." The bill, which is based on the Sixth Development Plan law, could eliminate the "natural monopoly" of telecommunications in the field of infrastructure, once approved by the Islamic Consultative Assembly.

In the Sixth Development Plan, the government is obliged to lift the monopoly of the copper wire network, cable and telecommunication duct and take it back from the Iran Telecommunication Company. Since investment, ownership and management of the country's fixed access network and ICT infrastructure and shared infrastructure for all operators such as canals, basins, ducts and towers are examples of monopolies, the government is obliged to create Equal access to its abstraction from Iran Telecommunication Company and active operators, and in the form of an independent government company with the participation of operators, to act in such a way that it is not possible to create a monopoly for the operator or operators in using these networks. Although the bill may not be passed in parliament for the remainder of the current government, once the bill becomes law, fixed internet users can be relatively satisfied with the quality and speed of fixed internet.

The importance of the government bill on the Internet is proven

In the case of fixed Internet infrastructure, we face a "natural monopoly" on telecommunications. For this reason, Mohammad Keshvari, an expert in communications and information technology, recognizes the importance of passing this bill on the issue that telecommunications has an infrastructure that is unrepeatable and so-called non-replicable.

Emphasizing that in terms of economic logic and the realities of the physical world, it is not possible to re-create such an infrastructure, a country says: "It is not possible to re-dig all the streets to the extent of the space available to the telecommunications network." "Transfer copper or fiber optic cable to homes."

According to one country, "If we want to start such an operation, we will need hundreds of thousands of billions of tomans and years of time, while in many areas such an operation can not be cost-effective."

Assignment with criticism

In the process of privatization, the telecommunication company was transferred to the private sector in 1988, and thus the infrastructure that existed in the telecommunications was provided to the company.

"Even at the same time, some experts believed that this infrastructure, which is unrepeatable and non-reproducible, should not be handed over to telecommunications in this way," said one country, referring to the background to the transfer.

"Since then, there has been talk of reforming the way infrastructure is being divested or reclaimed," he said, noting that the bill could not be considered a historyless issue.

Who is to blame?

One country regrets that for various reasons, no investment has been made in the development of this infrastructure, blaming both telecommunications and reasons that have been beyond the reach of telecommunications.

"Telecommunications should have allowed other companies to use this infrastructure," he said. "If the right environment was created, with an economic mechanism, this right should be created for other operators as well, so that they can get their fiber from the channels." "Let them pass."

The IT expert believes that "even telecommunications could cross its fiber and serve these companies with acceptable conditions through its fibers. In other words, these acceptable conditions mean that telecommunications should have facilitated this possibility in all areas. "Not to serve in one area and not in another."

One country sees the need to create an interactive environment that provides the conditions for a win-win rule, but he said: "Telecommunications did not do that, and if it did, it was very limited."

Of course, he also points to the problems of telecommunications and believes; "Reasons such as economic problems, exchange rate fluctuations and low service rates prevented telecommunications from being successful in developing infrastructure. "However, telecommunications could cover part of the development cost by providing this infrastructure to operators."

Noting that not all responsibility for infrastructure development can be attributed to one set, he believes that "a solution should be sought so that other fixed internet operators can use the same existing infrastructure" and recommends that it be better to " "Telecommunications provided this section to other companies with suitable conditions so that they could use this possibility."