The European Commission will soon present a proposal for a regulation on the deployment of ‘gigabit’ electronic communications networks (‘Gigabit Infrastructure Act’). With this future legislative proposal, the Commission specifically intends to increase the deployment of high-capacity networks, such as 5G, and to revise the 2014 Broadband Cost Reduction Directive (2014/61).
In concrete terms, the European Commission intends to focus primarily on cost reduction and access to...