Barcelona – Communications companies in Europe encourage calls to further unify the industry to help the region compete more effectively with the great powers such as the United States and China for major technologies such as 5G and artificial intelligence.

Last week at the commercial exhibition of mobile global conferences (MWC) in Barcelona, ​​executives in many organized telecom companies called for facilitating their collection of their operations with other companies and reducing the total number of transport companies operating throughout the continent.

There are currently many Telco players working in multiple countries in the European Union and non -European Union members such as the United Kingdom, however, Telco CNBC presidents told this situation that cannot be defended, as they are unable to compete effectively when it comes to price and network quality.

“If we will invest in technology, in deep knowledge, and make a fundamental change, and a positive radical change in Europe-as other large technological companies in the United States have done or see them today in China-we need TelefonicaCNBC, Karen TSO, said in an interview.

“In order to be able to get a wide scale, we need to unify a fragmented market like the communications market in Europe,” Marara added. “Therefore, we need a list that allows us to monotheally. So what we ask is: Please be unleashed. Let’s gain a scale. Let’s invest in technology and attend productive change.”

Christiel Hemman, CEO of the French carrier orangeHe said that although some of the huge voltage activity began to collect speed in Europe, more should be done to ensure the capacity of the competitiveness on the world stage.

Last year, Orange closed a deal to integrate its Spanish operations with the MAMOVil local mobile network. Meanwhile, recently, the United Kingdom’s competition and power marketsTY agreed to a 15 billion pounds inclusion process (19 billion dollars) Between telecommunications companies Vodafone And three in the United Kingdom, according to certain conditions.

“We have been actively led by Tawhid in Europe,” Hidman of Orange told CNBC. “We see things change now. There is still a lot of hope.”

However, she added: “I think there is a lot of pressure in Europe from the work environment on our political leaders to get things to change. But in reality, things have not changed yet.”

During a fiery main speech on Monday, the CEO of the German company Telco Deutsche TelecomTim Hojoz said other communications markets such as the United States and India have intensified in size into a handful of players only.

It is dominated by the American telecommunications industry by the three largest mobile network operators, Verizonand AT & T and T-Mobile. T-Mobile owned by the majority by Deutsche Telekom.

“We need to reform the competition policy,” said Hojz on the stage at MWC. “We must be allowed to unify our activities.”

“There is no reason that each market must work with three or four operators,” he added. “We must build one European market … because if we cannot increase our consumer prices, if we cannot impose fees on the players who ignore, we must obtain competencies from the scale we created.”

“Over-THE-TOP” refers to media platforms like Netflix Online content provides, bypassing traditional cable networks.

From artificial intelligence to progress to 5G networks of the next generation, telecommunications companies in Europe were invested extensively in new technologies in an attempt to overcome the old model of placing cables that enable the Internet connection-a business form that the term baffled “stupid tubes”.

However, this designated endeavor to update has happened along with the growth of slow revenues and the inability to weigh the sector to liquefy its networks effectively to the same degree that technology giants have made with the appearance of mobile phone applications, and recently the AI ​​Gynecological Tools.

In MWC, many mobile phone operators have talked about their use of artificial intelligence to improve network quality, better service their customers and gain their market share of competitors.

However, European communications heads say they can accelerate digital transformation trips if they are allowed to combine multinationals.

“There is this real focus now on European competitiveness,” Luke Kiu, an industry analyst in Europe at Owokla, told CNBC on the sidelines of MWC last week. “There is a goal to mobilize policy to improve communication networks.”

In January, the European Commission, the European Union Executive Authority, issued the so -called “competitive compass” of the European Union.

Among other matters, the document calls “revised guidelines to assess integrations so that innovation, flexibility and intensity of investment in competition in some strategic sectors are sufficient weight in light of the sharp needs of the European economy.”

Meanwhile, last year, the former European Central Bank, Mario Drajhi A. The long -awaited report urged radical reforms on the European Union Through a new industrial strategy to ensure its competitiveness.

It also calls on the new digital networks law that is looking to improve the incentives of telecommunications companies to create mobile networks from the next generation, reduce compliance costs, improve communication for final users, and the European Union policy is compatible through the network spectrum, or the radio frequency range used in wireless communications.

“The common topic and mood music reduces the regulation of former anti -former people and strengthens what they call a more competitive environment, which is a more favorable environment for unification,” Kiho of Owokla told CNBC. “Go ahead, I think there will be more monotheism.”

However, the telecommunications industry has a way to go towards seeing the processes of transforming borders.

For many telecommunications manufacturers, the demands for increasing monotheism are not new.

“The European executive managers of Telco have never been ashamed of calling for unification and friendship to grow,” Nick Welights, CEO of TelCo Association Forum, told CNBC. “But the organization is only one piece of the puzzle.”

“In the past 12 months, we have seen a new energy from our members in Europe to continue the huge task to transform themselves: simplifying their operations, modernizing them and automating old technology.”

He added: “This will make this possible adaptation to the needs of new customers and market facts, whether it is to build new partnerships, or are subject to integration and purchase or delaying integrated companies – all the trends that we expect to reach on new levels during the next 24 months.”