{"id":219141,"date":"2026-03-02T13:52:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T18:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/02\/murtra-we-need-scale-pro-technology-regulation-and-more-speed\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T14:05:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T19:05:10","slug":"murtra-we-need-scale-pro-technology-regulation-and-more-speed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/02\/murtra-we-need-scale-pro-technology-regulation-and-more-speed\/","title":{"rendered":"Murtra: &#8220;We need scale, pro-technology regulation and more speed&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telefonica.com\/en\/communication-room\/press-room\/murtra-we-need-scale-pro-technology-regulation-and-more-speed\/\">Murtra: &#8220;We need scale, pro-technology regulation and more speed&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telefonica.com\/en\/communication-room\/press-room\/murtra-we-need-scale-pro-technology-regulation-and-more-speed\/\">https:\/\/www.telefonica.com\/en\/communication-room\/press-room\/murtra-we-need-scale-pro-technology-regulation-and-more-speed\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-02 13:52:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.telefonica.com\">www.telefonica.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Executive Chairman of Telef\u00f3nica, Marc Murtra, defended today in Barcelona, during the first day of the Mobile World Congress (MWC), the need for the European Union (EU) to promote the consolidation of the telco sector to boost its strategic and technological sovereignty. \u201cWe need scale, we need pro- technology regulation and we need more speed,\u201d he said during his participation in a panel entitled \u2018What does strategic technological sovereignty mean for Europe?\u2019, which was moderated by the Director General of GSMA, Vivek Badrinath, and in which the CEO of Deutsche Telekom, Tim H\u00f6ttges, and the CEO of Eutelsat, Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Fallacher, also participated.<\/p>\n<p>Murtra stressed that Europe must progress in three ways to increase its strategic sovereignty. The first is the scale of the telco sector. \u201cWe need larger companies, with more resources, more risk capacity, better coverage and the ability to make deeper technological investments,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The second is regulation. \u201cRegulation must establish priorities. I think we are in a period where we need to prioritise the creation of technology. Regulation must be pro-technology and enable investment and innovation\u201d, he defended.<\/p>\n<p>The third point is the need to act quickly. The chairman of Telef\u00f3nica has called for regulation to be adapted to the current reality, in which changes are accelerating with the emergence of AI, generating products very quickly. \u201cIn this sector, we have witnessed technological changes compounded over 30 years. But I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve seen a more profound change than the last three months with AI. We\u2019re seeing new AI models almost every month. The way of programming, testing programs and developing products has change completely in just three months,\u201d he argued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we want to be sovereign, we will need digital products,\u201d he added. In this sense, he has called for the need for Europe to have cybersecurity products. \u201cIf we want strategic autonomy, we need our&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telefonica.com\/en\/communication-room\/press-room\/murtra-we-need-scale-pro-technology-regulation-and-more-speed\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Murtra: &#8220;We need scale, pro-technology regulation and more speed&#8221; https:\/\/www.telefonica.com\/en\/communication-room\/press-room\/murtra-we-need-scale-pro-technology-regulation-and-more-speed\/ Publish Date: 2026-03-02 13:52:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":219142,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.telefonica.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/03\/Image.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[62],"class_list":["post-219141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219141"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":219143,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219141\/revisions\/219143"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}