1. Implementation of infrastructure sharing in Lithuania
EaPeReg BEWG
20-21 February 2017
Tbilisi
Eugenijus Žvalionis
Deputy director of Strategy Department
Communications Regulatory Authority (RRT)
Lithuania

2. Content
Legal framework
The role of NRA

3. Infrastructure sharing
Legal framework:
Law on Telecommunications (1998)
Article 16. Construction and Joint Use of Telecommunications Lines and Telecommunications Facilities;
Regulations on common use of telecommunications infrastructure (2002).
Law on Electronic Communications (2004)
Article 28. Settlement of disputes between undertakings;
Article 39. Sharing of electronic communications infrastructure;
Detailed Regulation on construction of network infrastructure and infrastructure sharing.
Methodology to calculate free space available in the tube / duct (2010)

4. Infrastructure sharing – RRT role
Dispute resolutions - between cable TV operators and incumbent operator :
in 2002 first dispute on fees for the use of telecommunications equipment;
an incumbent operator refused to conclude a contract with a provider of public communications networks.
Imposition of the obligations after market analysis:
Wholesale (physical) network infrastructure access (including shared or fully unbundled access) at a fixed location (market 4)

5. Thank you eugenijus.zvalionis@rrt.lt