European wholesale market
December 2000

In Europe, the wholesale market is rapidly developing as carriers, ISPs and service providers increasingly provide products and services to each other. Some carriers see the wholesale business as a complement to their traditional retail business to end-users, as well as an interesting line of business that can improve their profitability in the short and mid-term. Others have focused themselves only on this category of activity.
Close co-operations in the form of interconnection agreements for the completion of international calls have existed for a long time between traditional operators, such as British Telecom, Deutsche Telekom, France Telecom, or AT&T outside of Europe. This co-operation is at the origin of such organisations as the ITU. Presently and more and more in the future such co-operations are extending beyond just interconnection in order to offer a more comprehensive portfolio of products and services through agreements addressing national as well as international markets. More...

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