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To: SKIP PAUL who wrote (22343)	2/2/1999 4:51:00 PM
From: Ruffian	Respond to of 152472

GSM To Tackle Regulators> Advertise on Total Telecom GSM Association to Tackle Regulators By a staff reporter 02 February 1999 The GSM Association is readying to lash out at European Union Regulators tomorrow regarding the course of the upcoming 1999 Telecommunications Review. The association is taking issue with regulators that are planning to apply fixed telecommunications industry regulations to the mobile industry. “Both technically and commercially, the mobile market differs from the fixed. The industry has flourished under a regulatory regime that encouraged competition,” said Adriana Nugter, member of the GSM Association executive committee. “Despite the growing trend towards convergence we do not think it is possible to regulate the two markets equally or to simply extend one set of rules to the other.” Another member of the panel, Jeremy Alun-Jones, senior investment banker at Lehman Brothers, suggests 'soft regulation' of the mobile market that would allow mobile communications to become a competitor in the local loop and to encourage investment in Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS). The European Interest Group (EIG) of the GSM Association will present its case to European and National Regulators of the European Union in a specially convened seminar in Brussels.