Europe’s top telecoms official has said the European Union won’t ease its stringent regulation of the sector despite its own figures showing the slowest growth rates in telecom revenues since 2003.

Viviane Reding, the EU telecoms commissioner, said regulation was if anything set to be stepped up to ensure incumbent players did not “squeeze out” newcomers during the downturn.

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