Telecoms stakeholders look to sector reset amid declining profits

Two key factors have stood in the way of the development of a single market for telecoms, Zach Meyers, a research fellow at the Centre for European Reform told EURACTIV.

“One of those things is the spectrum markets, which are still national, which means that it’s very difficult for companies to kind of coordinate a rollout of a mobile network across different countries at the same time”, he said, adding that “different land access regimes are also a real problem, but obviously politically extremely difficult to fix.”

For Meyers, both these factors, jealously guarded national competencies, obstruct coordination between companies when it comes to rolling out networks in different countries simultaneously.