European telecoms heavyweights are fighting back against Brussels. Faced with a market that is too fragmented and regulated, operators no longer have the means to invest.

At the Mobile World Congress, Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Vodafone and Telefonica called on Brussels to change the rules of the game. “ This is a historic moment, ” remarked Timotheus Hoettges, the boss of Deutsche TeleKom. ‘It is proof according to him “ that some…