Brussels, 15 January 2025: CEOs of ecta members met with Ms Teresa Ribera Executive Vice-President for a Clean, Just and Competitive Transition and for Competition.
The delegation included: Mr Jacques Bonifay, founder and CEO, Transatel; Mr JD Buckley, CEO, Sky Ireland; Mr Thomas Reynaud, CEO, Iliad Group; Mr Michael Martin, CEO, 1&1 Mobilfunk GmbH and Member of the Executive Board at 1&1 Telecommunication SE; Mr Valentin Popoviciu, Executive Director, DIGI Communications N.V. (DIGI group) and ecta Chairman; and Mr Luc Hindryckx, ecta Director General.
Our operators are leading the development of an accessible Gigabit society, representing significant investments in fixed, mobile, and fixed wireless access networks that qualify as Very High Capacity Networks, and demonstrating unique innovation capabilities. We thanked Executive Vice-President Teresa Ribera for the thoughtful and constructive exchange.
The meeting provided the opportunity to discuss the success of the European pro-competitive model. Based on an ex-ante SMP-based regulatory framework, it delivers in terms of investment, innovation, and consumer welfare, and highlighted why it should be maintained going forward.
Successful examples of the European telecommunications internal market were also presented to showcase how they help Europe’s competitiveness.
The contributions and efforts of the telecommunications industry to support the greening of the European economy were recognized, along with the challenges posed by energy prices for data centres and AI.
Finally, the CEOs of the telecoms industry explained why a diversified electronic communications sector, embracing a multitude of participants, both large and small, and nurturing a diverse array of products and services, is essential to empower the entire European economy and unleash its innovative potential in the digital realm. This is essential for Europe’s global competitiveness.
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ecta members are united in their belief that an inclusive electronic communications sector, embracing a multitude of participants, both large and small, and nurturing a diverse array of products and services, is essential to empower the entire European economy and unleash its innovative potential in the digital realm. In other words, diversity in telecoms is essential to guarantee Europe’s Competitiveness. This is the key message that ecta and its members continuously promote.
| For further information on the contents of this press release and ecta’s positions, please contact:
Luc Hindryckx, Director General, +32 472 35 06 54 |
| ecta, the european competitive telecommunications association (www.ectaportal.com), represents those alternative operators who, relying on the pro-competitive EU legal framework that has created a free market for electronic communications, have helped overcome national monopolies to give EU citizens, businesses and public administrations quality and choice at affordable prices. ecta represents at large those operators who are driving the development of an accessible Gigabit society, who represent significant investments in fixed, mobile and fixed wireless access networks that qualify as Very High Capacity Networks and who demonstrate unique innovation capabilities. |
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