EU digital chief tries to maintain single digital market

New European Union Digital Single Market Chief Andrus Ansip has adopted a tough stance on the issues of centralization of radio spectrum policy, network neutrality, and on the abolition of roaming fees for those travelling within the EU.

On spectrum, member states are trying to stop the European Commission gathering any more powers of coordination. EU Digital Chief Ansip argued: “The more this natural resource is divided, the less efficient it is. Ideally, EU countries should be working together much more on allocating spectrum." Digital Chief Ansip also said roaming fees for travel between EU countries were “an irritant and an anomaly”. He said he “will continue to push for an end to roaming surcharges in Europe” because “they have no place in the telecoms and digital single markets that Europe so badly needs.”