Telecoms : Ansip in favour of transnational consolidation

Speeding up mergers in the telecoms sector and obtaining more terrestrial frequencies: these are the two levers for investment in broadband, maintains GSMA, the association representing mobile operators. The signals emitted by the new Commission are generally positive in the eyes of mobile operators. Commissioner Günther Oettinger regularly defends the idea that a certain economy of scale is necessary to assure operators of a return on investment. Speaking during the 'GSMA 360' conference, on 8 December in Brussels, the Commission's…