This live webinar will present and debate the results of a new CERRE Telecom report ‘Cooperation between firms to deploy very high capacity networks’. Determining what might drive investments in fixed and mobile networks in Europe has not always been obvious and defining policy levers to encourage investments has proven more elusive than was ;

In this report, authors Tony Shortall, ;Marc Bourreau and Winston Maxwell focus on the need for cooperation within the telecom sector and beyond to speed up the deployment of fixed and mobile very high capacity (VHC) networks. They make policy proposals to adapt the rules to the new technological and societal context, taking into account the trade-offs between competition, investment, innovation and resilience, and current competition and sector-specific ;The report builds on a previous CERRE report, ‘Implementing co-investment and network sharing‘. 

During this webinar, the authors will present concrete policy recommendations to facilitate (or at least not impede) such investment given the urgency brought about by technological progress and exacerbated by the COVID-19 crisis.

SPEAKERS

• Tony Shortall - Director, Telage
• Michel Van Bellinghen-  Chairman of the Council Belgian Institute for Postal services and Telecommunications (BIPT) & BEREC Chair 2021
• Franco Accordino - Head of Unit ‘Investment in High-Capacity Networks’, DG CONNECT, European Commission
• Marco Benacchio - Head of Unit ‘Regulation of electronic communications markets’, AGCOM
• Marc Bourreau - CERRE Academic Co-Director, Professor, Telecom Paris
• Dr Hui Cao - Head of Strategy & Policy (Brussels office), Huawei
• Grania Holzwarth - Head of EU competition policy, Deutsche Telekom
• Bruno Liebhaberg - CERRE Director General
• Winston Maxwell - Director of Law & Digital Technology Studies, Télécom Paris
• Sabrina Stanislas-Boumier - Senior Manager of Government Affairs, Qualcomm
• Rita Wezenbeek - Head of Unit ‘Anti-Trust: Telecommunications’, DG COMP, European Commission
• Ben Wreschner - Chief Economist, Vodafone