COMMISSION PLANS TO EASE EU COMPETITION RULES TO BOOST TELCO INVESTMENT – BUT WILL IT WORK?
November 1st, 2016
THE EUROPEAN Commission of president Jean-Claude Juncker came to office in 2014 promising to focus on major projects and programmes – with major telecoms reform and expansion being a key goal.
His team has now delivered on that pledge, proposing a comprehensive package of competition changes and funding proposals that, if approved, would change the EU’s telecoms market controls, set ambitious targets for EU-funded broadband roll out and strengthen the role of BEREC as a European regulator.
The key focus is growth in high speed networks – notably ...
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