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Comment: Orange, Telefónica, Deutsche Telekom seek regulatory relief as EU prepares telecom policy in 2024

By Matthew Newman
  • 28 Dec 2023 09:59
  • 27 Dec 2023 10:10
Orange, Telefónica and Deutsche Telekom hope that 2024 will bring a new impulse in the debate about European telecom regulation, as they push for reduced red tape and a more lenient approach to market consolidation.
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Matthew Newman

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Matthew Newman is a chief correspondent for MLex and writes about data protection, privacy, telecoms, cyber security and artificial intelligence. Matthew began his journalism career in 1991 in community newspapers. He worked as a reporter in Riga, Latvia in 1993 and then moved to Chicago where he covered local news. In 1995, he became a personal finance reporter for Dow Jones Newswires, and was then transferred to Brussels in 1999. He specialized in EU regulatory affairs, including trade and telecom issues. He began covering competition for Bloomberg News as an EU court reporter in 2004. In 2010, he was named spokesman for Viviane Reding, the EU’s justice commissioner. In January 2012, he helped launch the commission’s proposal to overall data protection rules.

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