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Strategic Internet IntelligenceJun 11, 2026
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Connect Europe

Industry association

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Why tracked

European industry association representing leading connectivity network and service providers, formerly known as ETNO.

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Industry association

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Relationships

European Commission

Connect Europe convened telecom CEOs for exchanges with European Commission Executive Vice-Presidents on connectivity competitiveness, investment, scale and simplification.

advisesConfidence: 88%
GSMA

The GSMA and Connect Europe jointly submitted a competition-policy response on EU merger-guideline reform.

partners withConfidence: 94%
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Europe's telco CEOs turn consolidation into an investment-security argument

The useful signal is not that European telecom executives repeated a familiar request for consolidation. The shift is that the request is now being packaged as a competitiveness, investment and critical-infrastructure argument at the same moment Brussels is reviewing merger guidance and preparing a more harmonised digital-networks rulebook. Orange, Telefónica and Nokia put the operating pain in executive terms; Connect Europe and the GSMA put the same case into formal competition-policy language; the European Commission remains the gatekeeper that can translate the pressure into merger, spectrum and single-market rules.

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