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"Mr President, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group, I wish to congratulate Mr Paasilinna on his report, which we very much welcome. He has drawn up not only a very concise but also a very hard-hitting report. It is entirely appropriate as a response to the telecommunications communication from the Commission and exactly what we needed to give us a basis on which to move into our further consideration of the whole electronic communications package, which we shall be debating again in a month's time.
I want to focus on some of the key points highlighted in the report. I am going to leave issues on radio spectrum policy to my colleague, Mrs Niebler, who will be responding on behalf of our Group to Mr Alyssandrakis’ report.
Just to move forward on some of the issues related to opening up the market. The first and most encouraging thing from our point of view is that we now see the wisdom of opening the telecommunications market. To have an open competitive regime has now become the accepted wisdom. It is something that is fully accepted and we now need to translate that and move that forward as quickly as possible, towards further deregulation and even quicker opening of those markets that still work imperfectly.
There is a tremendous amount of detailed analysis in this report and it clearly shows the consumer benefits in price reductions, choice and increased services that have flowed from deregulation. However, it also clearly shows that there are far too many barriers, and the Commission has our full support in tackling them.
For consumers to benefit from this choice, they have to be encouraged to shop around, to compare in many cases what can be quite complex offers of prices and contract terms and service packages. We would like to encourage independent regulators to work together to provide simple, impartial price comparisons for consumers and use the sort of new tools they have available, like the Internet, to give consumers the ability to calculate the real cost of their calls. We encourage the regulators to share best practice with each other to provide a unified price and contract comparison system.
We will not have a developed market unless we have investment. The other issue we have to address is the ability of investors to make satisfactory returns on their investment. Therefore, in looking at the market-opening regulations, we have to look at methods of competition and encourage competition between the different parts and elements of the platforms. That is something we shall address in the next communication.
We welcome this report, which is really going to encourage market-opening to the benefit of consumers and the European economy."@en1
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