State of the European Union address on September 14 reveals European Commission’s next proposed steps in its Digital Single Market initiative.

Jean-Claude Juncker announced the results of the European Commission’s (the Commission) substantive review and recasting of telecoms regulation. The new regulations are meant to support several of the Commission’s far-reaching strategic connectivity objectives such as improving very high speed Internet connectivity to key socio-economic hubs (schools, transport hubs, hospitals, etc.), delivering very high speed (100 Mbps) Internet to all European households, and a plan to deliver 5G wireless coverage across Europe. Specifically, the proposals included...