“Telecom infrastructure costs billions. Who should pay them?
The theme of the consultation opened Thursday by Thierry Breton in Brussels, and summarized by the Internal Market Commissioner himself in this tweet, has the merit of being clear.
After tackling the content of platforms as well as their anti-competitive practices with the DSA and then the DMA, the Commission is continuing its operation to transform the European digital landscape with the telecom networks.
The stated objective is simple: to ensure that the promise of covering the continent in 5G for mobile, and with a speed of at least one gigabit for fixed, is kept in 2030. And therefore that investments to achieve this continue to flow.
However, Breton points out:
“The burden is increasingly heavy on operators, faced with rising raw materials or energy prices, as well as low returns on investments,”
he explains. .
Hence the idea, while the public finances of…
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