KROES TRIES TO BALANCE INTERESTS OF NETWORK OPERATORS AND NEW TELCOS, WHILE PROMOTING FIBRE INVESTMENT
October 1st, 2010
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE TELECOMMUNICATIONS sector has long been the focus of some the most direct market intervention by the European Union (EU), and it would seem that the EU still has an appetite for such initiatives, consulting on new guidance on third party access to fixed networks.
EU digital agenda Commissioner Neelie Kroes is behind this latest initiative, a Dutch politician who is both ambitious, energetic and one of the last keen liberalisers in an increasingly cautious European Commission. Kroes is concerned that while the EU's electronic communications ...
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