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EU: EC criticizes telco head Kroes’s plans for single market

By  |  August 14, 2013

As the Financial Times first reported, European Commissioner Joaquin Almunia produced a report commenting on EU telecommunications head Neelie Kroes’s proposals for a unified EU telco market in what the media described as “unusually frank criticisms” of Kroes’s offer. The report describes the unification proposal as one that “lack ambition,” though acknowledges that a single telecommunications market is needed as it would allow operators to more easily gain access to necessary spectrum, improving mobile services for consumers, and would cut roaming costs.

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