European Competitiveness
summary
Europe shows 900% data growth like other regions while telecom revenues drop about 10% yearly, leaving carriers underinvested at roughly $130 per person vs $180 in the US and $200 in Asia and creating an estimated $700B shortfall over five years. Fragmentation — 200+ national carriers and regulators instead of a unified digital market — forces repeated country-by-country deals; responses include carrier-built platforms (Horizon), a proposed standardized plugin/socket for OTT billing and QoS, and consumer hits like 2 billion downloads of Angry Birds proving scale is possible.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:06European competitiveness now
- 6:24Infrastructure investment & fragmentation
- 13:12Regulatory barriers & digital market gaps
- 25:47NSA surveillance impact on tech
- 28:13Net neutrality & service quality debate
- 36:38Strategies for European competitiveness
- 44:23Actionable changes & closing
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