Digital connectivity plays a fundamental role in stimulating innovation and progress in all sectors of the economy. To achieve widespread connectivity though, significant investment is required in the telecommunications sector. Encouraging investment has become a central objective in recent reforms of the telecommunications regulatory framework and legislative initiatives.
To speed up the deployment of fixed and mobile very-high capacity networks, cooperation within the telecommunications sector and beyond is needed. From a public policy perspective, allowing for cooperation between competitors may involve a trade-off. On the one hand, cooperation allows operators to share risks and costs, improving their ability to invest and innovate. On the other, there is the concern that cooperation may harm competition.
Join us on Monday 25 October at 14:00 CEST for an open discussion the potential pros and cons of allowing for cooperation between telecom operators, based on the relevant economic literature and previous CERRE research on co-investment and infrastructure sharing. A presentation of CERRE’s latest Issue Paper “Cooperation between Telecommunications Operators for Infrastructure Deployment” by leading academic Marc Bourreau will be followed by a discussion with senior academics, regulators, and policymakers.
This webinar is free and open to all, please register here to receive the connection details. Viewers will have the chance to ask questions via Sli.do during the event using the code #CERREtelco.
If you can’t join us live then the webinar will be available to replay on the CERRE YouTube channel afterwards.
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Marc Bourreau is a Academic Co-Director at CERRE and Professor of Economics at Télécom Paris (Institut Polytechnique de Paris). He is affiliated with the interdisciplinary institute for innovation (i3) for his research.
His research focuses on competition policy and regulation, digital markets, and telecommunications.
Marc holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Paris Panthéon Assas.
Michel Van Bellinghen, Master of Laws (UCL), started off at the university in 1990 as a researcher, then became an assistant under the supervision of Professor Françoise Tulkens, at the UCL Laws Centre for Criminal Law.
He became an assistant advisor at the Ministry of Justice in 1992 under the supervision of Professor Marc Bossuyt and joined the BIPT in 1997. From 1999 to 2003 he held the position of expert at the private office of Rik Daems, who was the Federal Telecommunications Minister at the time, and afterwards took up the function of Assistant Head of the Private Office. From 2003 until 2009 he was nominated Member of the BIPT Council for the first time. Following this mandate he remained closely affiliated to the Council and supervised the legal department of the regulator during a number of years. He has written scientific publications.
In 2013 he held a position on the Council as a Member. In January 2017 he was assigned Chairman of the BIPT Council. Michel Van Bellinghen has been elected to serve as Chair of Body of the European Regulators for Electronic Communications (BEREC) in 2021.
Rita Wezenbeek joined the European Commission in 2002. Before moving to DG CONNECT in December 2020, Rita was the head of DG Competition’s Anti-Trust and Telecommunications Unit, in charge of applying the European competition rules in the area of electronic communications. Between 2010 and 2017, Rita was the head of DG Competition’s unit dealing with Retail Financial Services and Payment Systems. The unit ia. dealt with the investigations against MasterCard and Visa and was responsible for the competition elements of the legislative processes leading to the adoption of the Interchange Fee Regulation and the Payment Services Directive II, opening the EU payment services market for non-bank players.
Before joining the Commission, Rita worked for sixteen years as a private lawyer, specialized in European and corporate law, at the Dutch/ Belgian law firm Nauta Dutilh. During fifteen years, she also was a Member of the Commission on European Integration, an independent advisory body on foreign policy to the Dutch government and Parliament.
Lara Natale* is CERRE’s Director for Tech, Media, Telecom and Mobility. She leads the think tank’s research and activities related to these sectors.
Most recently, Lara co-led the Tech, Media, Telecoms practice at FTI Consulting in Brussels, providing strategic EU public policy and regulatory counsel to global businesses.
Prior to that, Lara was attachée at the (then-named) UK Permanent Representation to the EU in Brussels, negotiating digital, culture, skills and other legislation. She also led the Brussels secretariat of a migrants’ rights NGO network, worked in two Westminster-based think tanks on UK social policies and in UK management consulting, and spent time teaching English in several countries, including Japan.
*Representing Kanso SRL
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