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The government opened a public consultation process a few weeks ago to approve a new general telecommunications law, which would replace the one in force since 2014. As is often the case when it comes to rules that regulate public intervention in economic sectors, the main objective of the new law is to incorporate into spanish law a new regulation of the european union, in this caso the european code of electronic communications of december 2018. However, the project does not present substantial novelties with respect to the regulation model that is still in force (nor could anything else be expected if only six years have passed since the last law.

The existence of a intense competition in the sector Italy Telegram Number Data million phone numbers changed operator in 2019) means that the focus of regulation is no longer aimed at controlling the activity of historical operators, but at encourage the extension of new high-capacity networks (especially fiber optics and 5g mobile telephony) to accelerate the country's digital transformation. Telecommunications are (and covid has shown it) an effective instrument for economic development, for labor (telework), social (development of rural areas) and educational integration, for the development of the content industry, etc. The business volume of the sector was almost 17.000 million in 2018, and the average annual investment from 2013 to 2018 has been about 5.000 million euros.




In any caso, most of the regulatory measures that try to promote this extension of new networks were already in the regulations in force (and in the decisions issued by the cnmc in its development). On the one hand, the cnmc is aware that the extension of new networks by telefónica is not encouraged if it is later forced to share them with its competitors (why take the risk of investing in better networks if later it is necessary to let other operators use them and offer the same services as me?); for this reason, it has imposed access by other operators to telefónica's new fiber network only in those areas where there is still not enough competition. While in 2016 telefónica was not obliged to provide access to its fiber network in 66 large municipalities (35% of the population), in a recent public consultation in november 2020 the cnmc has proposed extend this exemption to 592 municipalities .