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DSA

The Dynamic Spectrum Alliance (DSA) is a global, cross-industry, not for profit organization advocating for laws, regulations, and economic best practices that will lead to more efficient utilization of spectrum and foster innovation and affordable connectivity for all.

Lobbying Activity

Response to Report on the review of the Digital Decade Policy Programme

23 Dec 2025

The Dynamic Spectrum Alliance (DSA) welcomes the opportunity to contribute to the Commissions review of the Digital Decade Policy Programme (DDPP). We strongly support the Commissions continued efforts to ensure that the DDPP remains forward-looking, technology-neutral, and responsive to Europes evolving connectivity, digitalisation, sustainability, and competitiveness needs. Our organisations are deeply committed to advancing high-quality digital connectivity, innovation in Europes digital ecosystem, and the effective implementation of Europes 2030 digital targets. This response focuses on one area where we believe the DDPP review offers a major opportunity for refinement: the role of Wi-Fi and indoor connectivity in achieving gigabit usability, SME and public-sector digitalisation, and sustainable high-capacity networks across the Union. We provide recommended adjustments to indicators, governance mechanisms and monitoring approaches that would allow the DDPP to more accurately reflect how Europeans connect today and how connectivity will evolve towards 2030.
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Response to Digital Networks Act

11 Jul 2025

The Dynamic Spectrum Alliance (DSA) welcomes this initiative and is pleased to contribute our perspectives in support of a connected, secure, and inclusive Europe. The DSA commends the European Commission (EC) for recognising the essential role of high-quality, reliable, and secure connectivity in driving Europes economic growth, security, and social welfare. However, we are surprised that Wi-Fi, used by hundreds of millions of people and machines across Europe and a key driver of innovation, is not mentioned. Wi-Fi forms a cornerstone of Europes digital transformation, especially with respect to indoor connectivity. It underpins economic growth, innovation, and quality of life. An IDC InfoBrief report found that 92% of enterprises agreed that 6 GHz Wi-Fi was a significant advancement, and 80% saw it as integral to future connectivity needs. Europe needs to consider the needs of mobile operators, but also those of the broader wireless ecosystem. Mobile networks are essential for outdoor coverage for phones and cars, but Wi-Fi is indispensable indoors, where approximately 90% of data traffic is generated or consumed. Wi-Fi is particularly important for the vast majority of electronic products used in homes and enterprises that have no other wireless broadband connectivity: its either Wi-Fi or no connectivity. Licence-exempt access to spectrum, particularly the 6 GHz band (5.9457.125 GHz), is key to delivering high-speed, low-latency, and cost-effective services. The connectivity needs of consumer, industrial, and enterprise networks are changing rapidly, and Wi-Fi technology has evolved to meet these challenges. Wi-Fis backward compatibility in the legacy bands and rapid innovation have enabled it to support a wide range of services for todays vast ecosystem of Wi-Fi-only devices. Wi-Fi networks support applications such as automated manufacturing, real-time logistics, immersive learning, and industrial IoT, all of which rely on high-capacity wireless local networks. In addition, public institutions such as hospitals, universities, and libraries depend on Wi-Fi to deliver essential services and foster digital inclusion. SMEs and households also benefit from affordable Wi-Fi, which is optimised for indoor use. Fibre networks, combined with next-generation Wi-Fi, create a powerful platform for resilient indoor connectivity. Wi-Fi is likely to remain dominant in European markets due to its cost-effectiveness and the high cost of replacing existing networks and devices. For many enterprise and industrial networks, there may be no business case for adopting more expensive alternative technologies that offer similar service levels. Upgrading existing Wi-Fi networks could result in productivity gains that are not achievable by other means. Wi-Fi 6E and Wi-Fi 7 bring advanced security, ultra-low latency, and architectural flexibility, making them critical to modern wireless infrastructure. However, these technologies still require access to sufficient spectrum to maximise the benefits. Delays in opening the upper 6 GHz band for licence-exempt access risk creating a bottleneck in Europes connectivity ecosystem. While the lower 6 GHz band is already available, the full benefits of these next-generation technologies depend on access to the entire band. Countries such as the US, Canada, South Korea, and Saudi Arabia have allocated the full 6 GHz band for Wi-Fi. Europe must not fall behind. This is a use it or lose it moment: inaction could forfeit Europes competitiveness. Europe must define demand-based conditions for licence-exempt access to the upper 6 GHz band and ensure that enterprises can obtain consistent and reliable access to the spectrum they need to compete globally. Realising the goals of the Digital Networks Act and the Digital Decade requires prioritising future-proof access to licence-exempt spectrum. This will ensure that European connectivity, innovation and competitiveness are not held back.
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Meeting with Werner Stengg (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager) and Rud Pedersen Public Affairs Brussels

6 Nov 2024 · Connectivity, the upcoming Digital Networks Act (DNA)

Response to How to master Europe’s digital infrastructure needs?

27 Jun 2024

Dear European Comission, The Dynamic Spectrum Alliance (DSA ) respectfully submits the feedback in response to to the consultation on the White Paper on how to master Europe's digital infrastructure needs.
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Meeting with Werner Stengg (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager)

14 Dec 2023 · Connectivity (together with Ida Maria Fallesen - policy assistant)

Response to Virtual worlds, such as metaverse

3 May 2023

An EU initiative on virtual worlds: a head start towards the next technological transition The Dynamic Spectrum Alliance (DSA) appreciates the opportunity to contribute to the European Commissions efforts to develop a forward-looking vision on emerging virtual worlds and share our considerations to this reflection through the call for evidence. Todays digital economy is already witnessing the use of virtual technologies, particularly in the area of gaming but also increasingly in the business environment through use cases such as virtual reality (VR) for training, digital twins, IoT, etc. In our view, virtual technologies can play a key role in accelerating the broader uptake of digital applications in Europe, contributing to Europes path towards its 2030 Digital Decade targets. Nevertheless, this uptake may well be gradual, as the technologies required to achieve a fully fletched and mature metaverse are still being developed and will need some time to be deployed. The development of these new virtual worlds will require new technologies and devices, protocols, partnerships, innovations, and discoveries to work, opening up a range of new opportunities for the European economy and society. The DSA welcomes the European Commissions approach towards virtual worlds, as it will continue to support and build on the innovations already underway in Europes digital economy and ultimately aims at enabling the digital ambitions of the Europes 2030 Digital Decade Policy Program. Paying policy attention to enabling gigabit Wi-Fi will also contribute to more sustainable virtual worlds. According to a 2020 ARCEP Report, 70-80% of network emissions are due to the access network and fibre networks are ten times more energy-efficient than mobile networks. Therefore, a combination of fibre and Wi-Fi is a greener option for indoor connectivity than 5G. In this same vein, considering that energy efficient windows, with a high attenuation effect, are expected to become the standard in Europe, indoor coverage will be provided in a much more energy-efficient way from inside, via fibre and Wi-Fi connectivity, than from outside via 5G connectivity, as the latter requires additional base stations and power to compensate the building attenuation. We appreciate that EU Member states, based on a Commissions proposal, will start soon working in an EU common position to the upcoming World Radiocommunication Conference 2023 (WRC-23), where, among other things, the future of the upper 6GHz band will be discussed. The EU is well positioned to lead on the development of AR/VR technologies supporting virtual worlds. As AR/VR devices will require Wi-Fi connectivity as one of their primary enablers, the EU should not underestimate the potential of Wi-Fi to allow virtual worlds to develop and take up. Following a no change scenario as a result of the WRC-23 proceedings, meaning that EU would decide not to identify this band as an International Mobile Telecommunications (IMT) band, would allow Europe to better position itself to deliver on the ambition of gigabit connectivity at a fixed location. A no change position will send the right signal to the market that the EU is still considering the best future use of the band, producing minimum distortions while the EU takes its time to come to a decision. Following such approach will avoid the emergence of a broadband connectivity bottleneck in the last-meter to the end-user as enough licence-exempt spectrum could easily be made available to handle the current and future indoor connectivity demands and further foster innovation in areas such virtual worlds, amongst others.
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