Interconnexion

For the benefit of the consumer and the efficiency of systems, networks should cover as large a territory as possible, for example Europe. For this, there must be a mesh between the different networks so that, for example, travelers or electric or electronic waves can pass from one to the other. This capability is referred to as interconnection.

This interconnection is particularly delicate at the borders between countries and that is why regulators often have specific and greater powers with regard to the interoperability of cross-border networks. Thus, to take the example of the European telecommunications agency, set up in 2010, this simple agency has no real regulatory power, more like a simple observatory gathering and disseminating data, except in this regard. which concerns cross-border interconnections.

If there is no interconnection, there cannot be a common system. This can be set up by the standards. A classic example is that taken from the gauge of railway tracks, different between France and Germany, which prohibited the interconnection of the railways of the two countries, to which the standardization of materials and constructions has put a term.