This is true even in areas where unbundling has taken place.

Then again, unbundling has been going on for a while, without help from the Internet.

In my country, for example, where we have ownership unbundling, there are many problems.

Where unbundling is introduced, energy prices fall, or rise more slowly.

Many companies are now operating their own services using local loop unbundling.

There are other compelling reasons the financial services business would like to avoid unbundling.

In the crucial area of energy, we support the Commission's action on ownership unbundling.

Today the structural unbundling of the energy sector is more necessary than ever, but it cannot be an end in itself.

No, because this is due to other causes that have nothing to do with ownership unbundling.

Now, if unbundling and the single market had triggered a fall in energy prices, it would be apparent.

The unbundling is not an aim in itself but we think that this may be the way toward a functioning market.

Let us talk for once about an unbundling that is taking place in the social policy field in Europe.

It is in this perspective that we need to look at the discussion about ownership unbundling.

It is also a form of ownership unbundling, but with a trustee.

BT are useless but our general system of unbundling is certainly a good thing.

The Commission has in fact been too quick off the mark with its proposal on the complete unbundling of ownership rights.

Now to the most controversial part of the report - the issue of unbundling.

There are other committees that have voted against ownership unbundling.

Nobody can tell me that ownership unbundling will achieve what we want, which is to break up the market and create competition.

To make sure that these access rules are effective, we need legal unbundling of the storage operators.

We have already discussed the issue of unbundling, network separation and gas supply.

Theoretically, all this unbundling will make everyone better off.

Elia was created as a result of the legal unbundling in the electricity market.

It is important however to distinguish between such legal separation and ownership unbundling.

It is unlikely that any company will be faced with such problems in the early stages of stock unbundling.