EC and Mobile Industry Swap 3G Plans

date: May 22, 2002 - source: BWCS

European Commission officials have held a top level meeting with some of the top brass from 18 European mobile operators. According to the GSM Association the discussions focused on how the EC can help support the industry launch future 3G networks and services. The two sides discussed infrastructure sharing, spectrum management, licence conditions and network rollout.

EC officials who attended the meeting were keen to stress that they had addressed key points of the EU’s eEurope Action Plan. The plan makes the development of 3G communications a central plank of the EU’s drive to create a workable broadband information society with innovative services across Europe.

According to the EC’s Enterprise and Information Commissioner, Erkki Liikanen, the talks provided a “a solid basis for a successful launch of 3G services in the very near future.” He believes the EC is helping the emergence of new mobile services by what he described as “the recent adoption of a lighter new regulatory regime.”

Liikanen added that the new communications regulatory package “has been designed to reduce red tape, offer technology-neutrality and to pave the way for a more level playing field for telecoms in Europe.”

For its part, the GSM Association, through its pressure group GSM Europe, was pushing for change in several legislative areas, which it says are critical to the continued growth of Europe’s mobile services. The main concerns were that the industry should not be over-regulated, as this would hamper the development of new services. The industry body is wary that environment, health and planning issues may impinge on the development of new 3G networks. It also requested that the EC should help in the drive towards mobile commerce by ensuring that the industry is not hamstrung by “inappropriate financial regulations."

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