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The Deutsche Telekom CEO, Tim Hottges, speaks during the Mobile World Congress, the world’s largest mobile fair, in Barcelona on March 3, 2025.
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Barcelona – Europe needs its own version of ELON ALMIZCLEThe so -called government efficiency department, Deutsche Telekom CEO, Tim Höttges, said Monday when he made a passionate petition for the region to cut the bureaucracy in the telecommunications industry.
Europe is staying behind partners such as the United States and China when it comes to key technological innovations such as artificial intelligence and next -generation 5G networks, Höttges said during a panel event at the Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona.
“What Europe needs is a Dux,” Höttges told the audience, speaking with Margherita Della Vodafone Valley, Christel Heydemann de Orange and Marc Murra de Telefónica.
“We need an initiative to reduce this bureaucracy and this administration here, because there are tens of thousands of people sitting there and managing our industries,” he added.
The Trump administration only announced plans to launch Doge last year. The initiative, led by billionaire Tesla Boss Elon Musk, had the task of cutting the costs of the Federal Government Administration.
Dege is not really a government agency, and its leader Musk is not an elected official. Since his establishment, Dege has sought to reduce spending on federal government agencies, Making great work cuts in Departments of Defense, Education and Energy.
Höttges said he has told all the regulators with whom Deutsche Telekom occupies, including guard dogs for the media, cybersecurity and privacy, and that general number reached around 270.
He added that, unlike other European telecommunications companies, Deutsche Telekom can obtain most of its United States income through its majority participation in the T-Mobile American wireless network.
Shout renewed by consolidation
As telecommunications companies have frequently carried out in previous MWC iterations, Höttges made a renewed call for Europe to reduce barriers for market consolidation in the industry.
“There is no reason for each market to have to operate with three or four operators,” he said. “We should build a single European market.”
Even so, analysts do not see the consolidation of industry as a “silver bullet” for the sector. The leader of the Global Telecommunications of PWC, Florian Gröne, said that although the EU regulation has led to “fragmentation” in the region, it is not sure that it agrees with “the mantra of the industry that it needs cross -border consolidation and everything will be fine.”
“An integrated telecommunications model vertically has its purpose, but it is not the right lens to boost the results from both a business perspective and a regulatory and more social perspective,” Gröne told CNBC in a call last week before MWC.
Höttges added that Europe should serve the US technological giants as Amazon, Microsoft and Netflix A rate for use of mobile operators networks, an initiative that has been proposed several times in the past.
“It is a free service that we are offering, because there are no interconnections at all. And I think they should even contribute a bit to lead to our industry’s investment needs,” said Höttges.
