Optimal Regulatory Model for Telecommunications Services in the EU

Optimal Regulatory Model for Telecommunications Services in the EU

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Optimal Regulatory Model for Telecommunications Services in the EU 

15-02-2017 This report reviews the market trends for the development 

of digital networks and applications for 2020 and beyond and, on that 

basis, proposes a framework for an optimal regulation for telecommuni-

cations services in the European Union. Against that framework, the 

report then critically assesses the draft European Electronic Communi

-cations Code proposed by the Commission in September 2016. We 

submit that the Commission’s proposal goes in the right direction but in 

not ambitious enough to protect the EU consumers in the App economy 

and to stimulate the digital single market. We think that universal service 

should ensure an extensive availability of Wi-Fi connections throughout 

the EU and that citizens need to be protected by general consumer pro

-tection rules that are smarter and better enforced instead of detailed 

and complicated sector-specific rules. This paper was prepared at the 

request of Policy Department A and the IMCO Committee.