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• #ThinkDigital interview: Alfons Oliver Altés, Axon Consulting

  The fourth #ThinkDigital video interview from the ETNO - MLEX event on Europe's Internet Ecosystem on 16 May 2022 compiles the main messages of Alfons Oliver Altés, Partner at Axon Consulti...

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  #ThinkDigital interview: Alfons Oliver Altés, Axon Consulting

  #ThinkDigital interview: Alfons Oliver Altés, Axon Consulting

  The fourth #ThinkDigital video interview from the ETNO - MLEX event on Europe's Internet Ecosystem on 16 May 2022 compiles the main messages of Alfons Oliver Altés, Partner at Axon Consulting. Mr. Oliver said: "Europe is now at the crucial turning point. Several new business opportunities are set to emerge thanks to the massive availability of 5G and gigabit connectivity, bringing significant socioeconomic benefits to European citizens and businesses. We are now looking forward to the European Commission's upcoming decision on the new network funding model that will make all these objectives a feasible target. One would actually wonder how is it similar to the discussion that took place ten years ago. Traffic levels have grown by over ten times today as compared to ten years ago. Mobile broadband has become a widespread commodity. The European Commission has set ambitious digital targets, and by no means we can say that our relationship with connectivity today is in any way comparable to that ten years ago." Stay tuned for more #ThinkDigital interviews and subscribe to #ETNODigital to get your weekly digest on all things digital! ✍️ https://www.etno.eu/news/etnodigital.html
• #ThinkDigital interview: Wolfgang Kopf, Deutsche Telekom AG

  #ThinkDigital interview: Wolfgang Kopf, Deutsche Telekom AG

  The second #ThinkDigital video interview from the ETNO - MLEX event on Europe's Internet Ecosystem on 16 May 2022  compiles the main messages of the Wolfgang Kopf, Senior VP for Group Public and Regulatory Affairs at Deutsche Telekom AG. 

  Mr. Kopf said: "We have heard today what the upcoming investment until the end of the decade is. Those minimum €250 billion have to be financed. And what we also saw today is how big the imbalance is.

  This imbalance is shown in the data traffic we are seeing. This traffic has increased since 2001, 70 times the amount of 2001. If you go back to 2011, it is still 12 times more. And it still continues to increase 30% a year. The ones who are providing or originating that traffic do not pay at all in a two-sided market. We still believe that the market could work if we negotiate but we have an arbitrator, and we have a regulator in the back. 

  We first need to make sure that the member states and the EU Commission in the final text on the Digital Decade support this.  Once this is done, we think we need to have first indications on how to shape and how to do these negotiations.

  Let me also comment on with whom we want to negotiate. It is really the big 5 to 10 data originators, the ones who are responsible for more than 80% of our traffic. Broadcasters are not at all in the scope: that is a different business."

  Stay tuned for more #ThinkDigital interviews and subscribe to #ETNODigital to get your weekly digest on all things digital! ✍️ https://www.etno.eu/news/etnodigital.html

• #ThinkDigital interview: Rita Wezenbeek, European Commission

  #ThinkDigital interview: Rita Wezenbeek, European Commission

  #ThinkDigital video series are back! In this video interview, we went to ask to Rita Wezenbeek, Director for Connectivity, DG CONNECT, what her main messages were at the event on Europe's Internet Ecosystem, organised by ETNO and MLex on 16/5/22.

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