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Conflict and Renewal: Europe Transformed. Essays in Honour of Wolfgang Petritsch
Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 2007, 407 pp.


Chapter 9. Media and Communications in a Globalised World
Bridging Frontiers in an Expanding Europe

by Boris Nemsic


"The unleashing of the telecommunications sector, allowing it to realise its full potential - and meet the expectations of consumers that these services be as free-flowing, available and expressive as human interaction itself - depends above all on three requirements: focus, flexibility and money. It will require a European ICT sector that demonstrates dynamism and competitiveness on a global basis. It will require consumer choice among providers as unfettered as the communications taking place through our services. It will take continuous investment in new technologies and infrastructure, both fixed and mobile. And all that will in turn require a regulatory environment featuring demands and dimensions that closely relate to, and are flexible in the face of, changing market conditions. (...)"


Boris Nemsic is CEO mobilkom austria and CEO of Telekom Austria Group