Telecom infrastructure : groundwork for EU economy of the future

The EU has set its 2030 ambitions in terms of egovernance, digital businesses and skills, which need to be supported by qualitative telecom infrastructure. This is the goal of the Gigabit Infrastructure Act.

The Digital Decade Targets are a set of goals aiming at empowering EU business and people in "human-centred, sustainable and more prosperous digital future" reads the Commission website.

These goals range from egovernance (100% of key public services online), to businesses (75% of EU companies using cloud or AI), and skills (20 million ICT specialists), with the Commission pursuing these ambitions through a set of regulatory tools.

One of these is the regulation called the Gigabit Infrastructure Act.

Member of the European Parliament and rapporteur of the text Alin Mituța said that "the objective of this act is to ensure that, by 2030, all EU households should have access to fixed gigabit networks and all populated areas, including rural areas, have 5G coverage so no one is left behind".

Yet, even with broad public and private consensus that the Digital Decade Target should be met by 2030 in the EU, as this regulation approaches interinstitutional negotiations, better known as trilogues, debates are still keeping on emerging in finding the right balance in accelerating telecom infrastructure deployment.