"We need more big players on the European telecoms market," said Commissioner Günther Oettinger in an interview with the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on 30 March. "We should ensure that companies are making enough profit to be able to invest" in broadband internet in Europe, he said.
This position is similar to that of the association of traditional telecoms operators, ETNO, for whom mergers of telecoms operators and investment in broadband go hand in hand. Companies' increased powers allow…