T-DSL resale

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T-DSL resale designates from Deutsche Telekom to Internet service providers looking wholesale offer her at participants switched DSL connections as a separate product on a wholesale basis ( resale market).

In the bundle with the network feed variants T-DSL-ZISP , ISP-Gate and T-OC-DSL , the offer largely corresponds to an IP bitstream access . The providers act as the sole contractual and contact person for DSL access towards the consumer , but T-DSL Resale requires a Deutsche Telekom landline connection to be maintained by the subscriber .

Technical

T-DSL resale connections are subject to exactly the same DSL switching rules as DSL connections marketed by Telekom to end customers, with the known effects of longer connection lines .

Market development

In mid-2004, Deutsche Telekom placed T-DSL resale on the market as its own marketing instrument for its DSL connections, in order to further secure its market dominance on the broadband market against the emerging competition from providers with their own infrastructure and to prevent further regulated bitstream access or to delay it as long as possible.

After it was established in 2004, the number of T-DSL resale connections initially grew rapidly, as Deutsche Telekom strategically placed T-DSL resale on the market against the offers of alternative landline providers based on subscriber line rental . However, after customers began to increasingly request full access packages initially only marketed by the alternative fixed line providers and Telekom switched its DSL marketing to its own Call & Surf full access packages, T-DSL Resale suddenly lost its attractiveness on the market.

Due to the existing compulsory bundling of T-DSL resale connections with a Telekom landline connection to be maintained by the subscriber on the basis of T-DSL resale, competitors could not offer their customers any comparable full-line connections. Competing Internet access providers therefore implement their offers almost exclusively on the basis of the fully unbundled subscriber line , which means that corresponding offers are possible without a bundled Telekom telephone connection.

In addition, more and more Internet access providers in the metropolitan areas are using the advance service offered by Telefonica there as a T-DSL resale alternative on a line-sharing basis if customers want to keep the Telekom landline connection, which means higher data rates compared to the restricted T-DSL Resale data rates are feasible.

At the end of September 2007, Telekom had 11.6 million T-DSL connections (corresponding to a market share of two thirds in the German broadband market), of which 3.5 million were marketed via the T-DSL resale distribution channel. In the 4th quarter of 2007, sales of T-DSL Resale came to a complete standstill and the T-DSL Resale connection numbers stagnated at the figures for the previous quarter, while the number of connections marketed directly to end customers increased by more than half a million. On December 31, 2008, Telekom had switched 13.3 million T-DSL connections, of which only 2.5 million were marketed via the T-DSL resale / IP-BSA sales channel, a decrease of 28% compared to that December 31, 2007.

As a result was thus in no competitors through DSLAM - collocation or cable Internet developed port areas, the dominant market position further strengthened by Deutsche Telekom in the broadband area, as Internet access provider no competitive market offerings based on the inputs of the incumbent (there ILEC could offer). Around 30–40% of households in Germany, especially outside the metropolitan areas, were affected by this situation.

The head of the Federal Network Agency said in January 2008 that he saw this as unproblematic.

Replacement by regulated bit stream access

Since July 2008, competitors have had access to bitstream as an alternative to T-DSL resale after a regulatory process that lasted several years, which is much more attractive for competitors due to the unbundling of the fixed network connection to be maintained by the customer and which, as a result, T-DSL Resale should largely replace. The active marketing of T-DSL resale connections by competitors of Deutsche Telekom was almost completely discontinued by mid-2010. An exception is the provider 1 & 1 , which still offers T-DSL connections on request by telephone.

literature

  • Remco van der Velden: Competition and Cooperation on the German DSL Market - Economics, Technology and Regulation. Mohr Siebeck Verlag, Tübingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-16-149117-7 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ c't 8/2007: Effects of the Telekom switching rules for T-DSL and T-DSL resale for longer access lines ( Memento from April 6, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Telekom DSL customer development 4th quarter 2007
  3. ↑ Financial Times Deutschland of January 29, 2008: only a few hundred DSL resale customer contracts in the fourth quarter of 2007 ( Memento of January 31, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Telekom DSL customer development 2008
  5. ↑ teltarif.de of January 23, 2008: Kurth: T-DSL-Resale-Stagnation unproblematic
  6. ↑ dsltarifinfo.de of June 27, 2010: T-DSL resale connections soon to be a thing of the past

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