{"id":995474,"date":"2026-02-28T07:59:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T02:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=995474"},"modified":"2026-02-28T08:08:56","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T02:38:56","slug":"deutsche-telekom-ceo-criticises-eu-telecom-rules-overhaul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/28\/deutsche-telekom-ceo-criticises-eu-telecom-rules-overhaul\/","title":{"rendered":"Deutsche Telekom CEO criticises EU telecom rules overhaul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Deutsche Telekom chief executive Timotheus Hoettges expressed dissatisfaction with how the European Union is handling the reform of telecommunication sector rules and called for \u200cmore \u2060deregulation. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re seeing \u2060more and more red tape, more requirements,&#8221; he said during a press conference after the publication of the company&#8217;s fourth-quarter results. <\/p>\n<p>Following several months of pressure from European \u2060telecom companies, \u200cthe European Commission unveiled in January a major \u2060revamp of the sector rules known as the Digital Networks Act.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deutsche Telekom chief executive Timotheus Hoettges expressed dissatisfaction with how the European Union is handling the reform of telecommunication sector rules and called for \u200cmore \u2060deregulation. &#8220;We&#8217;re seeing \u2060more and more red tape, more requirements,&#8221; he said during a press conference after the publication of the company&#8217;s fourth-quarter results. Following several months of pressure from European \u2060telecom companies, \u200cthe European Commission unveiled in January a major \u2060revamp of the sector rules known as the Digital Networks Act.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-995474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=995474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=995474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=995474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=995474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}