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The parliament has taken on telecoms incumbent firms, breaking apart network maintenance from retail sales of services (Photo: EUobserver)

MEPs keen to break up telecoms giants

The European Parliament has supported breaking up giant telecom firms and helping people switch mobile phone firm in a three-pronged legal package designed to deliver lower prices and offer greater protection to consumers.

On Wednesday (23 September), the chamber voted by 597 voices in favour of a plan to separate the network operations from the services operations of the large, previously publicly-owned telecommunications firms.

Under the measures, national regulators would have ...

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The parliament has taken on telecoms incumbent firms, breaking apart network maintenance from retail sales of services (Photo: EUobserver)

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