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Italtel CEO Advocates Single European Digital Market

Italtel CEO Advocates Single European Digital Market

Italtel's CEO Stefano Pileri during the Digital Venice, 2014 called for a borderless Europe with a single digital market to be created as part of a bid to stimulate investment in next generation networks in Europe. 

According to a statement by Italtel, Pileri's comments form part of the Venice Declaration which was unveiled at the event and has the aim of restoring confidence in the European institutions and clearly defining the actions to be pursued to achieve the Digital Europe set out in the European Digital Agenda 2020.

In order for Europe to seize the opportunity the Digital Agenda represents, Pileri recommends four key actions, each corresponding to the following technology sectors - Ultra Fast Internet, Big Data, Cloud and Internet of Things.

"We need to create a ‘borderless' Europe with a single digital market. No European company is ranked among the top ten ICT companies; the market is fragmented and hampered by regulation. We need to create a single set of rules for the whole of Europe in order to stimulate investment in next generation networks and ensure a fair return on that investment. The rules must be pro-business, encourage investment and ensure a fair return, especially in regards to fixed and mobile access (LTE/LTE Advanced/5G) network investment. Digital technologies, processes and skills are the "X factor" we must rely on to regain competitiveness, restart growth and create new jobs. The Digital Agenda is the cornerstone of the policies for growth that Europe wants to implement and consequently Public European and Member States funds should not be considered in the "Fiscal Compact" principle. Pileri continued: We need to recognize, within the new Ultra Fast Internet Infrastructures, the value of differentiation of Quality of Service and Quality of Interconnection, while also ensuring net neutrality, because they represent an accelerator of value and act as a catalyst for investment."

  Stefano Pileri, CEO, Italtel

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