Telecoms look at pan-Europe network

Article reported that Europe’s top telecoms executives from Deutsche Telekom, France Telecom, Telecom Italia and Telefónica were discussing in January 2013 the creation of a pan-European infrastructure network to unite the continent’s fragmented national markets, following prompting from the European Commission to consider more radical options.

Establishing an EU-wide network-sharing agreement would be fraught with financial and technological obstacles, given the myriad differences in infrastructure and national rules. But it would bring the European market more in-line with the US and China markets, each of which has only three or four large groups. It could also yield consumer benefits, such as single pricing for telecoms and internet services across Europe.

http://ec.europa.eu/competition/sectors/telecommunications/overview_en.html http://ec.europa.eu/competition/sectors/telecommunications/overview_en.html

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