‘Europe needs a DOGE’: Höttges looks to Musk for regulation blueprint
MWC 2025: Deutsche Telekom CEO Tim Höttges has led the usual calls for policy overhaul in Europe, this time offering a direct comparison between European MNOs’ challenges and T-Mobile’s ‘freedom’.
This article includes:
- Geographic: Belgium; Europe; Germany; India; Italy; Spain; UK; USA.
- Organisations: AT&T; Bharti Airtel; Competition and Markets Authority; Deutsche Telekom; Digi; European Commission; Fastweb; Liberty Global; MásOrange; Orange; Reliance Jio; Starlink; Swisscom; Telefónica; Three; T-Mobile US; Verizon; Vi; Vodafone; Zegona Communications.
- People: Christel Heydemann; Donald Trump; Enrico Letta; José María Álvarez-Pallete; Justin Springham; Margherita Della Valle; Mario Draghi; Marc Murtra; Mike Fries; Sunil Bharti Mittal; Tim Höttges.
- Themes: 5G; Consolidation; Consumer prices; Deregulation; Digital Networks Act; DOGE; European Single Market; Investment; Mobile World Congress; Over-regulation; Policy overhaul; Regulation; Regulatory reform; Spectrum licencing.
- Events: Mobile World Congress 2025.
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