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Article: TELECOMMUNICATIONS : FORMER MONOPOLIES ASK FOR "TARGETED REGULATION".
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- Article date:
- December 2, 2009
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Incumbent operators are keeping on the pressure two weeks from the Telecoms Council, on 27 November, which must agree on a vast reform of the EU's rules ensuring competition in the electronic communications market (telecoms package). They demand a "targeted regulation," especially in the context of the current financial crisis and the fall in investment in telecoms.
The current rules, defined for the copper networks in early 2000, "cannot be systematically extended to new networks, which are constructed in a competitive environment and which entail high-risk investment," they once again argued on the occasion of the annual conference of their European ...