Telecommunications, 5G, 6G and Network Sovereignty
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About this report
Telecommunications infrastructure in Europe can no longer be analysed as a mature utility sector whose main policy questions concern household coverage, retail prices and consumer switching.
In the Digital Decade framework itself, connectivity sits inside the Union’s broader ambition for “secure, resilient, performant and sustainable digital infrastructures”, alongside semiconductors, cloud-edge capacity and digital public services.
Key questions this report answers
- Why can European telecommunications no longer be analysed as a mature utility but as a strategic connectivity layer?
- How does the Digital Decade framework tie connectivity, 5G/6G, semiconductors and cloud-edge to secure, resilient infrastructure?
- What regulation, security and policy architecture underpins network sovereignty?
- What technology-stack and supply-chain questions define the Defence Finance Monitor view on 5G and 6G?
Inside this report
- Telecommunications as Europe’s strategic connectivity layer
- Regulation, security and policy architecture of network sovereignty
- The technology stack and the supply chain question
- The Defence Finance Monitor view
Who it's for
Strategy, corporate-development and investment teams that need an ecosystem-level view — budgets, industrial capacity and technology landscapes — before committing capital or capacity.
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