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Telework 96 Europe’s external and internal trade (imports and exports) are expected to grow significantly over the next decade, with or without advanced communications. If deployed rapidly and effectively, advanced communications can enable Europe’s external trade balances to improve, allowing Europe to share in the economic growth of developing regions such as Asia, Eastern Europe and Latin America. Better trade performance will help to contain European unemployment and sustain current prosperity. If, however, advanced communications remains expensive and restricted in Europe then this will damage Europe’s trade performance, undermine its competitiveness and compound its unemployment problems. We estimate that the difference in EU employment between a scenario where advanced communications develops rapidly in Europe and a scenario where take-up is slow could be five to six million jobs in the EU (in 2010), corresponding to around ECU 300 billion of EU GDP (in today’s terms). The additional employment in the rapid progress scenario will arise from increased activity within Europe as well as improved EU external trade balances, with both of these sources expected to make similar contributions to employment growth. Increased EU activity and increased EU exports are based on higher levels of innovation, productivity and competitiveness within the EU economy, driven by the application of advanced communications. Whilst the differences in employment between these two scenarios may appear to be modest (3% of the EU workforce at the end of a 15-year period), we believe that the positive impacts of rapid advanced communications take-up are more plausible and more achievable than any of the ‘traditional’ remedies for Europe’s employment problems, and that they merit the close attention of all economic policy makers and politicians, not merely those with a specialist interest in communications. This view is well aligned with that expressed in the 1993 EU White Paper on Growth, Competitiveness and Employment, which focused on advanced communications as a key factor in addressing Europe's economic problems. Again, to ensure that advanced communications is a benefit to Europe, policy makers should focus on improving the affordability of advanced communications, specifically high-capacity intra-European connections. To ensure that advanced communications is a benefit to Europe, policy makers should focus on improving the affordability of advanced communications. If the price of advanced communications is kept in line with its falling costs then virtuous circles of usage, innovation and further cost reduction will be initiated, and advanced communications will diffuse rapidly through small and medium-sized businesses and residential customers. In such circumstances, the creative processes outweigh the destructive processes. Although a substantial programme of regulatory and structural reform is already underway in Europe, at national and supra-national levels, commercial and political pressures are continuing to keep prices high to preserve existing telecoms revenue streams. Without continuous vigorous intervention from governments, regulators and - 32 -
Telework 96 competition authorities, the erosion of these prices will be too slow to allow Europe to obtain the full economic benefits of advanced communications. Policy actions might include: early infrastructure liberalisation, assertive national price regulation, forcing telecoms operators to offer high-capacity circuits (to prevent high setting of advanced communications prices by dominant operators), early licensing of trans-European network operators, replacement of the existing “account rate” regime for international telecoms settlements with a regime based on interconnect price (to overcome high crossborder advanced communications prices in Europe) and accelerate rebalancing, reassess the ways of compensating incumbent operators for the obligations that are placed upon them (to avoid unbalanced tariffs). - 33 -
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