a single market with 27 regulators
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wan SutherlandLINK Centre, Wits University
CRIDS, University of Namur
Coordinating market regulation across the EU21 June 2013 London
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Scotland: Yet another regulator; or Some complex extra-legal, pseudo-federal network governance
International mobile roaming: 25 years of regulatory activities (1996-2022) 9 years of statutory price controls (2007-2016) A failure to address tax havens Precious little to do with a single market
Operators: Reduced their geographic footprints Actively pursuing consolidation within member states
Telecommunications regulators: Ensuring their independence
Entrenching their position A Gordian knot of network governance
Single market for telecommunications: Neither the same as nor a prerequisite for the Digital Single Market There are neither measures of nor data on harmonisation What benefits are there for consumers and enterprises?
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One of the four UK nations Plebiscite due in September 2014
Presumed to be(come) a member state of EU
Would need a new set of regulatory bodies: OFCOM, CMA, CAT, GCHQ, OTA2, ASA, etc.
With its own network governance
Split the licences
Split the markets Argued to be closer to the people
SNP wants to aggregate all regulators
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Polling evidence says Scotland will stay in UK Need to rethink devolution:
Will additional powers be transferred?
How to channel political and community
messages to regulators? Engage with complex non-transparent
network governance coordination in: Scotland
United Kingdom European Union
How to channel and coordinate state aid? Little evidence of preparation for this revamp
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Original deal was to deliver economies ofscale for GSM manufacturers
Operators would get to enter new markets
A few premium customers could roam: Handsets would not need further approval
Home country numbers would be used abroad
Up to 15 per cent surcharge on home prices
The issue of high prices identified in 1998 Commissioner van Miert authorised initial
investigation in 1999
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Never expected to be a 25-year problem Without exception everyone made mistakes
Few admit those mistakes: Commissioner Kroes recanted her views
Price regulation is very crude but effective
However, there was no bounce in demand
Structural remedies will not work
Why has roaming taken up so much time? What is it diverting attention from?
Minimal relevance for the internal market
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Regulators have been investigating operatorcosts for years or decades
The issue of the use tax havens has neverbeen raised
Yet not paying (much) tax greatly affectscosts
Regulators have a massive trans-national
network which could address such matters
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They also failed to spot corruption
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Old complaints about leased lines On-going U.S. regulation of special access Service providers failed in alliances Then they created their own networks:
Acquired networks from customers Built facilities in foreign countries Leased facilities from incumbent operators
Some recent complaints from service
providers about incumbent operators Never added mobile to fixed VPNs:
A real market failure
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A long process to persuade member states: Disinterest Incomprehension Lack of tradition
Gradual improvements
EC still pressing member states Romania, Spain, Netherlands, etc.
NRAs now seen to be permanent Sunset clauses have failed Regulation will never end
But, do we still need the NRAs? They have not delivered competition Market analyses and remedies will continue for years They cannot deliver a telecoms internal market Could use big data instead
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Communications Committee (COCOM) Radio Spectrum Committee (RSC) Article 7 procedures Associations and groups:
Independent Regulators Group European Regulators Group I European Regulators Group II Body of European Regulators of Electronic
Communications (BEREC)
Enduring divergences arise from: Transposition of directives Implementation by regulators Decisions by national appellate bodies Unanticipated creativity of national regulators
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Single European Act: To be completed in 1992
Liikanen contribution to Lisbon Agenda: the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based
economy in the world
Monti Report on the internal market: No digital internal market Digital single market represented a one-off500 billion
potential boost to EU GDP
Jobs and Growth 2020
Digital Agenda for Europe A digital supply chain Digital invoicing
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A radical legislative compromiseCommissioner Neelie Kroes
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Action 18: Harmonisation of numbering regimes Action 19: Spectrum Policy plan Action 20: Investigate the cost of non-Europe in the
telecoms market Action 42: Adopt an EU broadband communication
Action 43: Funding for high-speed broadband Action 44: European Spectrum Policy Programme Action 45: Foster the deployment of NGA networks Action 48: Use structural funds to finance the roll-out
of high-speed networks
Action 49: Implementing the European Radio SpectrumPolicy Programme in Member States Action 101: Look for durable solutions for voice and
data roaming by 2012
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http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/our-goals/
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Digital Single Market: Is very much more than a single telecoms market
Does not require a single telecoms market
What would it require? A single regulator:
Commissioner Reding at BITKOM
Commissioner Kroes on Monday not pragmatic
A single number for Europe:
European Telephony Number Space Multi-country spectrum assignments:
GMPCS
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No single market with 27+ regulators Tighter coordination will take decades
Better/easier just to get rid of the NRAs If you want a telecommunications single market
Roaming regulation is an abomination Not based on competition or market analyses
Do not appear to be real consumer benefits
from a single telecommunications market
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International mobile roaming: Market definition(s)
Market failure(s)
Regulation: What was roaming regulation diverting us from?
How might we measure harmonisation?
Trans-national services for business
Measuring harmonisation
Operators geographic scope
What comes after ladders of investment?
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