The European Commission promoted the sharing of spectrum by providers in order to increase wireless connectivity.

The Commission highlighted the application of technology, in order to allow more than one provider to use a spectrum frequency. If such sharing was widely achieved, further spectrum frequencies would be available for other services allowing for improved connectivity.

Neelie Kroes, vice-president of the EC’s Digital Agenda, said: “We must maximise this scarce resource by re-using it and creating a single market out of it. We need a single market for spectrum in order to regain global industrial leadership in mobile and data and to attract more research and development (R&D) investments."