Costas Louropoulos, EETT President “Speeding up NGN ubiquity: a pillar for digital growth” Athens, Greece 13-14 February 2014 Regulation towards an investment-friendly.

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Costas Louropoulos, EETT President “Speeding up NGN ubiquity: a pillar for digital growth” Athens, Greece February 2014 Regulation towards an investment-friendly digital ecosystem in Europe Costas Louropoulos, EETT President “Speeding up NGN ubiquity: a pillar for digital growth” Athens, Greece February 2014

A snapshot of where we stand !

3 The ICT ecosystem world-wide: In the top five global leaders in each category, only three (3) are Europeans ICT sub-sectors Network operators IT Services PCs – Notebooks IT Hardware Software Devices Semiconductors Equipment Vendors www Europeans: 1 None 1 None 1 None Market Facts: - The EU telecom industry is roughly € 250 bn of Revenues -Requires € 270 bn of Investments! -Who is going to invest? -Governments or Private investors? In or Out of Europe? AreaPopulationOperators EU510 M200 national US300 M4-5 nation- wide CHINA1.500 M4-5 nation- wide

Trends in the ICT industry Hardware Software Telecoms 4 Is this technology in pace with the other two ???

5 The next generation of ICT

We live a new era of Hardware dis-integration and re-integration Any surface Any surface or Voice

Why Broadband is needed? Why Broadband is Mobile? 7 Don’t forget: M2M The internet of things

The importance of releasing spectrum in Greece, for Mobile usage Digital dividend: a very important project 8 The plan is to keep our promises: November 1, 2014 kick-off

Are we all moving in the right direction? -in the same direction? -at the same pace?

EC NRAs BEREC The “common area depends on local circumstances National GVTs OPERATORS 1.Proposal for EU Single Market 2.Net Neutrality 3.Authorisation 4.Access products 5.International Roaming 6.End User Provisions 7.Spectrum We all agree (more or less) on Agenda …. But the Road Map ahead is not the same across stakeholders

EC NRAs BEREC Let’s see how close or how far we stand… National GVTs OPERATORS 1.Proposal for EU Single Market 2.Net Neutrality 3.Authorisation 4.Access products 5.International Roaming 6.End User Provisions 7.Spectrum Today we shall deliberate on…. 1. Proposal for EU Single Market 2. Net Neutrality 3. Authorisation 4. Access products 5. International Roaming 6. End User Provisions 7. Spectrum

1.….Meets Public Resources budget plans (DTV and Digital dividend). 2.…..Reduces Time-to-market in our decisions, to minimal or zero. 3.….Is credited for sizeable new network infrastructure (NGAs & LTEs) that is put in place. 4.….Contributes in fairness of competition among market players. 5.….Helps attracting new Investments. 6.….Is credited for Country’s digital divide metrics being improved 7.….Increases consumer’s choice. 8.….Is aligned with EC goals EETT’s agenda  Keep up what works well. Maintain reputation of independency.  Improve internal efficiency, cover backlog of pending issues.  Work with stakeholders, (including the Government) to remove legislative constraints.  Streamline intergovernmental process bottlenecks.  Maximise public benefit from exploiting scarce resources and State property.  Identify and participate in e-business & e- government initiatives (B2B, B2C, and B2G, as well as G2G and G2C)  Participate in EU dialogues We are currently in a stage of redefining our operating objectives, towards the Greek telecom and postal market. Today we can commit the following: Our ObjectivesPlease measure our Success by and when EETT….:

TELCO OPERATORS & Service Providers Governments and EC “The” Consumer What makes business sense ! Regulators 13 well regulated environment which offers operators equal opportunities to enter, invest and operate Need to foresee the challenges arising in the new digital era Develop the Policies and legal framework Expected to realise NGN investments: A driver for economic recovery in Greece and the EU Wants to Utilise both ultra- speed communications infrastructures and innovative services. At affordable prices We need to reconcile our “road maps” ! Market

“The” Consumer What makes business sense ! All in this room! We are all finally judged by the “King”: The Consumer, The Citizen, the Tax Payer, The one and only “whole Person” who is watching us. Market

Thank you