French Regulator ART changes name to Arcep

French telecommunications regulator ART has changed its name to Arcep (L’Autorite de Regulation des Communications Electroniques et des Postes), to take account of the French postal and electronic communications sector, it was reported on May 31, 2005.

The name change has been planned since the beginning of 2005, but the new name was unveiled recently.

Arcep (www.arcep.fr) was set up to regulate the liberalised postal and electronic communications sector. (Editor’s note: According to data, recently published on the Association for Postal Commerce’s Web site, Arcep will be able to protect the competition in the sector, but will not have power over all of the operations of the French post office, La Poste.)

(Alternative/original name: L’Autorie de Regulation des Telecoms, ART.)

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Source: Les Infos,Association for Postal Commerce