A cry of alarm to open hostilities.
While the elite of telecoms have been meeting since Monday in Barcelona for its annual mass, the Mobile World Congress, one of the highlights of the opening day was undoubtedly the round table bringing together the four bosses of the biggest European operators.
On the main stage of the show, Christel Heydemann for Orange, Margherita Della Valle for Vodafone, José Maria Alvarez-Pallete for Telefonica and Timotheus Hoettges for Deutsche Telekom sent a message as simple as it was worrying: in the absence of drastic changes to relax European regulation , the EU risks technological downgrading.
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The complaint is certainly not new.
But the joint presence of the four leaders on stage, gathered for the first time together, adds weight to the message.
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This is a historic moment ,
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remarked Timotheus Hoettges, the boss of Deutsche Telekom, adding that it was proof according to him
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that some…
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