Compensation paid by content producers can speed up the construction of 5G networks, but would a service offered within the EU create more value?

The EU Commission is organizing a consultation on the future communication infrastructure and its development. The idea is to find out the possibilities that other than network operators, e.g. content producers, would also participate in the costs of building networks. The idea is not entirely new, but it is interesting that it is finally being discussed. It is quite strange that the vast majority of the network's capacity goes to e.g. watching videos and the service provider collects the money from the services (advertising revenue) and does not pay anything for the use of the network. When the use of data grows rapidly, investments must be increased, and in practice this should mean that prices for end users will rise. The number of ads in the services is only increasing and in addition to this you should pay more for the subscription, doesn't it sound attractive? 
 
The idea is worthwhile in itself if the cost of using the network is reasonable and it increases and speeds up the operators' investments. If the money goes into the operators' pockets, nothing new is born. In addition, the exercise must not lead to a situation where service development is slowed down or, at worst, prevented. 
 
The situation is much the same as with the 3G network back in the day. Operators did not want to invest in the network when there were no services that would have created demand and only the launch of the IOS and Android platforms changed the situation. The same logic also went beyond 4G. 

Since the question is largely about who pays, I would think, taking into account the root cause, in what way can we promote service development that needs 5G or 6G and would slightly break the current highly concentrated service production? In addition, not much innovation has been born in the EU like Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon or Meta? What is the cause of this and what kind of legal frame would support the creation of innovations? 
 
Attached are some thoughts; 
 
1) Does competition law limit companies' opportunities for consolidation too much in the national market or in the entire EU area? Would consolidation of operators speed up service development? Currently, there are a little less than 200 operators in the EU. It suddenly sounds like a big amount. 
 
2) Does it make any sense at all that in a country the size of, for example, Finland, there are three network operators and more than ten overlapping mobile communication networks? Would joint use also lead to service innovation if it were allowed and encouraged? 
 
3) Operators have always made an effort to cooperate and connect networks and services. How is this translated into an opportunity when developing new services? The current frame mostly prohibits cooperation between operators, how could it be encouraged? 

4) In addition to money, do service providers have something else valuable that could speed up service development? How, for example, data? What if, for example, Google should open all its data to service developers instead of money? Would this accelerate service development, which needs faster and better quality connections? 
 
5) Is there any aspect related to cyber security that would favor the construction and use of new networks? Is the operators' closed network safer than the internet? 
 
6) Does smart mobility require fast and reliable mobile communication networks? How can we speed up the decisions in which we start building the mobility infrastructure in this direction. When can cars move without a driver and what does this require? 
 
7) The green transition requires breaking away from oil and utilizing renewable energy in multiple ways and on top of each other. How is communication infrastructure and service development related to change? At the very least, information must flow safely and reliably under all conditions. Could one also do something with the data that requires real-time? 
 
8) How is capital and investment available for companies that want to develop something that requires faster and better quality networks? Is the money actually available or not? 
 
9) Could taxation do something that accelerates service development? 
 
10) The exercise is complex and multidimensional. However, it must be clear to everyone that it would be good for the EU's competitiveness if we could create something new ourselves that creates value for the end users, that is, for all of us. 

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