VP for the European Commission

Carriers are fiercely competitive, but swallowing their territorial tendencies, several around Europe have started teaming up to share mobile spectrum and other resources in the ongoing race to serve hungry mobile consumers with data for their apps, video chats and film streams — expected soon to top 1 trillion megabytes of data per month. Today the EU took a step towards formalizing that, with the introduction of a proposal for spectrum sharing.

Announced by Neelie Kroes, VP for the European Commission, the proposal “is an essential part of the solution to dealing with the wireless crunch… by using new technical possibilities to create a secondary market for spectrum rights.”