The European Commission still is working on a blueprint for a single telecoms market in the EC states, a move some tier one service providers want, but which national regulators and smaller service providers might fear.
The issue is how to create one market from 27 distinct national frameworks, as well as how to harmonize investment and operating rules across the different countries. It is not clear that such a move, if successful, actually would create a single regulator across all 27 countries.
For a few tier one service providers, common rules and a single market would allow a more efficient and profitable approach to providing communications services across Europe. Many smaller providers would find they do not have scale to continue competing successfully, though.
In fact, the plan might initially entail easier competitor access to tower sites, ducts and other forms of infrastructure. The objective would be to enable some European service providers to achieve greater scale.
Many would likely argue that the reason AT&T and Verizon Wireless are doing so much better, on a financial basis, than European mobile service providers is that both those firms enjoy a large, continental-sized internal market. The EC moves aim to replicate such advantages in Europe.
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
European Commission Still Wants to Unify 27 Telecom Markets
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
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