FTTH Council Europe Feedback on White Paper “How to master Europe’s digital infrastructure needs?”

The FTTH Council Europe welcomes the opportunity to give its views on the Commission White Paper. The FTTH Council Europe considers that fibre networks are fundamental to the digital transformation of European economies and that the objectives of the Digital Decade need to be reached in a timely fashion.

To this end, the FTTH Council Europe considers that it is essential to maintain a favourable regulatory framework for fibre investment in a competitive environment. The White Paper should recognise that the existing framework has delivered, and is delivering, good results in terms of fibre deployment and in our view, in Europe, concerns are mostly on the demand side of the fibre market.

The FTTH Council Europe notes that 4 relevant objectives should be at the core of the next legislative and regulatory cycle:

• Facilitate the deployment of Fibre Networks
• Increase incentives to invest by reducing uncertainty on the demand side
• Maintain a competitive environment
• Support the green transition