ETNO Reflection Document on the draft BEREC Strategy 2015-2017 and Work Programme 2015
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Comments on the Draft BEREC Strategy 2015-2017 (BoR (14) 119)
a) BEREC’s Strategic Pillars (pp. 3-4)
- In its first Strategic Pillar, BEREC sets as a primary goal the promotion of competition and investment. ETNO shares the view that investment and innovation in next generation electronic communications infrastructures is a central goal to be targeted by policy-makers and regulators.
- We therefore encourage BEREC to focus its work in 2015-2017 on incentivising investment in high-speed fixed and mobile broadband infrastructure, ensuring sustainable competition in electronic communications markets.
- As stressed in our recently released Agenda for Europe, we believe that a lighter and less complex regulatory framework for the rollout of NGA infrastructures, a level playing field among all players of the digital value chain and a new public policy framework for the digital industry can provide the right incentives to maximize investments and innovation in the European digital sector, while improving European citizens’ lives.
- As a general comment, we also underline that the role of regulatory authorities should be better aligned with the network investment objectives and a new, cohesive and light-touch regulatory and legislative framework, fit for the digital reality, should be put in place.
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