This report offers a critical review of the discussion of the impact of national roaming on investments and competition. The key challenge with mandated national roaming is that it is…
While free markets may have given rise to the mobile revolution and the commercialization of the Internet, many European politicians and telecom regulators believe that centralized government and control is…
Let’s acknowledge that the EU is in the midst of an historic crisis and an increasing number of Europeans are skeptical about European integration and EU leadership in Brussels. Over…
Europeans have been dissatisfied with the EU government for years. Political parties skeptical of Brussels have had a resurgence. To combat its image problem with the voters, pro-European politicians have…
Copenhagen 1 April 2017 It is not a secret that the EU has an image problem among many citizens in Europe, an issue demonstrated when Great Britain activated Article 50,…
EU is suffering the worst identity crisis since the union was created. Politicians and bureaucrats are desperate to demonstrate doing something good for the people. They thought cheap roaming was…
The revised EU proposal on roaming shows that the European Commission faces an existential crisis. It cannot succeed to make telecom policy that incentivizes new economic growth; it can only…
One of the European Commission’s regulatory campaigns is to end mobile roaming charges. Every year just before Europe’s summer vacation, the Commission reminds people that they should be able to…
There is much discussion about the EU telecoms package “Connected Continent: a single telecom market for growth and jobs”, and EU leaders are proud to have introduced rules on roaming…
The proposal adopted by EU parliament today will not solve the big problems there are in the EU when it comes to providing citizens with access to broadband infrastructure. See…
While the EU Commission has pursued a lot of nice-sounding policies, it has avoided fundamental reforms that would reverse Europe from falling behind in the digital economy. When it comes…
– EU Commission’s digital single market proposal raises more questions than it answersA week ago the EU Commission presented its proposal for the Digital Single Market Connected Continent including the “roam…