Five Priorities for Achieving Europe's Digital Single Market

A sustained and pervasive digitalisation of the EU economy is today’s main growth opportunity. Ubiquitous, powerful broadband networks are the prerequisite.

European telecom operators are investing heavily for citizens and for the economy: by 2020, our industry will allocate €86bn to broadband deployment. Despite this effort, a BCG study for ETNO estimates that an investment gap of €106bn will persist unless we take action with major regulatory reforms.

For this reason, ETNO supports the European Commission in its review of the Telecoms Framework and encourages a swift, broad re-thinking of Europe’s policy and regulatory tool-set for the digital age. It is not about one industry only, it is about the whole economy and offering more to European citizens.