Europe risks a decrease behind global competitors in 5G networks, warns Margherita Della Valle, CEO of Vodafone.
While Europe has once led the world in 2G, it is now leaving the United States and China only, but also abandons the emerging economies. Della Valley believes that the organizers' focus on low consumer prices has led to the deterrence of investment, which hindered the development of digital infrastructure throughout the continent.
The last approval to integrate Vodafone worth 16.5 billion pounds with three offers in the United Kingdom, Della Valley said, “a glimpse of what the world of different technology may seem,” explaining the greater ability to open the capital needed to invest 5G stronger. With fewer operators, Della Valley says, Europe can face a better opportunity to match the levels of communication seen in the United States and Asia.
Europe is delayed by broader effects, which goes beyond customer experience to global competitiveness and technological independence issues. Less number of infrastructure promotions on a large scale, such as the surfaces of the sea and the advanced satellite technology, leaves that European communications operators depend on external service providers-most of them from the United States-which makes Europe “parked technology” effectively. Della Valley notes that Europe has capabilities to take the initiative again, but it needs a more lenient organizational environment.