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Telekom Austria AG

A1 Group

Telekom Austria is a leading digital services and communications provider in Central and Eastern Europe.

Lobbying Activity

Meeting with Lucrezia Busa (Head of Unit Communications Networks, Content and Technology)

4 Dec 2025 · Exchange of views on roaming with third countries

Meeting with Alexander Winterstein (Cabinet of Commissioner Magnus Brunner)

4 Dec 2025 · Exchange of views on current challenges in digital domain.

Telekom Austria urges EU to end digital regulatory fragmentation

13 Oct 2025
Topic — The consultation seeks to simplify EU digital laws and reduce administrative burdens.
Message — They request a national "one-stop shop" for regulation and harmonized reporting for security incidents. They also urge the Commission to align conflicting definitions across major digital acts.123
Why — Streamlined rules would reduce legal uncertainty and lower administrative costs for their international operations.45
Impact — Data subjects could see their privacy rights weakened if protections are reassessed or repealed.6
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Meeting with Karlo Ressler (Member of the European Parliament)

24 Sept 2025 · Digital Single Market

Response to Commission Implementing Regulation on fair use and anti-fraud policy for intra-EU communications

17 Jul 2025

A1 Group welcomes the opportunity to contribute to the Commissions consultation on intra-EU communications. As a leading telecommunications provider in Central and Eastern Europe, we would like to share our views on the proposed measures. From our perspective, the initiativewhile formally presented as a flexibilisationdoes not offer real added value for operators. The possibility of voluntarily refraining from surcharges for intra-EU calls has always existed. The proposed right to apply a Fair Use Policy as a counterbalance introduces additional administrative complexity without significantly enhancing flexibility or innovation potential. More importantly, we see the risk of reinforcing structural regulatory asymmetries. Traditional telecom services remain subject to detailed and prescriptive regulation (including price thresholds, transparency obligations, and usage caps), whereas OTT services offering identical or substitutable functionalitysuch as messaging and voice appsare entirely exempt. This regulatory imbalance undermines fair competition and distorts user choice. A future-oriented and innovation-friendly regulatory framework should ensure competitive neutrality across all providers of comparable services. Where effective competition exists, regulation should be reduced, not expanded. In the case of intra-EU communications, competitive market dynamicsdriven by both telecom providers and OTT playersclearly justify a reassessment of the need for continued intervention. Rather than introducing conditional exemptions or additional reporting duties, we believe the better approach would be a full phase-out of the intra-EU call regulation. This would be consistent with the objectives of stimulating investment, and promoting a level playing field across the digital value chain. In general, A1 Group encourages the Commission to pursue a coherent, technology-neutral and proportionate framework that enables sustainable competition and innovation in the EU.
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Telekom Austria Group Urges Fair-Share and Regulatory Reset

11 Jul 2025
Topic — The consultation seeks to modernize Europe's digital infrastructure and connectivity regulations.
Message — A1 Group advocates for replacing current market analysis with simpler access rules based on commercial negotiations. They also demand that large content providers pay fair contributions toward network infrastructure costs.12
Why — This framework would lower regulatory barriers and unlock new funding for network infrastructure.3
Impact — Large content providers would face new financial obligations, while consumers could see higher prices.45
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Meeting with Renate Nikolay (Deputy Director-General Communications Networks, Content and Technology)

4 Mar 2025 · Commission priorities in technology policy and telecoms regulation

Meeting with Henna Virkkunen (Executive Vice-President) and

3 Mar 2025 · Telecommunication sector and upcoming legislation

A1 Group urges EU to overhaul telecom merger and regulatory rules

26 Jun 2024
Topic — This consultation addresses the challenges and scenarios for Europe's future digital connectivity infrastructure.
Message — A1 Group recommends replacing current market power rules with "symmetrical access obligations for all fixed network market players" to encourage investment. They also propose that "Large Traffic Generators (LTGs) should contribute to broadband expansion" to help fund network costs. Finally, they suggest reforming merger laws to "extend the geographic market definition to include the entire EU" for greater scale.123
Why — The company would benefit from eased restrictions allowing them to "operate at a larger scale."4
Impact — Large digital platforms would be forced to financially contribute to the "broadband expansion" of networks.5
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Meeting with Angelika Winzig (Member of the European Parliament)

13 Mar 2024 · Future Telecom policies

Meeting with Angelika Winzig (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)

7 Dec 2023 · Gigabit Infrastructure Act

Meeting with Angelika Winzig (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)

6 Dec 2023 · aktuelle Telekompolitik auf EU Ebene

Meeting with Johannes Hahn (Commissioner) and

6 Dec 2023 · Current political and economic challenges

Meeting with Paul Tang (Member of the European Parliament) and Google and

26 Feb 2023 · Participant at EIF-GSMA Roundtable discussion: "‘Connecting Europe to its 2030 Digital Decade Targets’"

Meeting with Thierry Breton (Commissioner) and Google and

6 Sept 2022 · meeting with the Green Digital Coalition - Main topic : state of play on sustainable digitalization

Meeting with Anne Funch Jensen (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager), Kim Jorgensen (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager)

19 Feb 2021 · RRF

Response to Voice call termination rates in the EU (Eurorates)

21 Sept 2020

Please find our feedback in the attached file.
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Response to Light deployment regime for small-area wireless access points

26 Mar 2020

A1 Telekom Austria Group supports ETNO and GSMA in their joint positioning. In its main points the joint response states that based on the EC specifications, it can be concluded that: - Assuming everything is visible, one operator with one technology and one band would already go beyond 20 L. - Even assuming power can be made “non visible”, with a limit of 20 L it would not be possible to add an additional band or an additional technology. - The volume requirements grow substantially if there are two or more operators sharing the site. Sharing, even between only two operators, would in practice not be possible unless all the components of the small cell are “invisible” The joint statement proposes alternative approaches in Annex A.1 and Annex B.2. Annex A.1: Italy and the UK currently include area (0.5 m2) in definitions of small cells. We propose a larger volume consistent with our comments above and in order to address concerns about visibility we propose to limit the area of the visible portion of the small cell. The total volume of a single small-area wireless access point shall not exceed 50 litres and the area of the visible part of an outdoor small-area wireless access point serving one or more spectrum user shall not exceed 0.5 square metres. Annex A.2: Italy and the UK currently include area (0.5 m2) in definitions of small cells. The total volume of a single small-area wireless access point shall not exceed 50 litres and the area of the visible parts of each separate outdoor small-area wireless access points sharing the same infrastructure site of small surface, such as a light pole, a traffic light, a billboard or a bus stop, shall not exceed 0.5 square metres.
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Meeting with Margrethe Vestager (Executive Vice-President) and Telefonica, S.A. and

2 Dec 2019 · Meeting with CEOs in the Telecom sector

Meeting with Günther Oettinger (Commissioner) and Vereinigung der österreichischen Industrie - Industriellenvereinigung and

23 Apr 2019 · Future of Europe

Response to Specifications for the provision of cooperative intelligent transport systems (C-ITS)

7 Feb 2019

A1 Telekom Austria Group (Telekom Austria AG) provider of digital services and communications solutions in Central and Eastern Europe advocates for a forward-looking regulatory framework for future C-ITS deployment based on the principles of transparency and of technology neutrality. Furthermore we endorse solutions that support technological evolution for improved safety and efficiency of the C-ITS framework. Regrettably, the latest draft of the Delegated Act contradicts the commitment to an open and future-proof approach to standards and legislation, by exclusively embracing ITS-G5 based on 802.11p communications. We belief that the Delegated Act should not be picking technology winners, but should allow the creation of an ecosystem with equal opportunities for all involved stakeholders aiming to support the goal of C-ITS. The current draft excludes all technologies other than ITS-G5, such as LTE-V2X (both direct short-range or long-range modes) and neglects the 3GPP based evolutionary roadmap towards 5G for connected vehicles and road infrastructure. In this respect it should be further noted that C-ITS type of services have already been implemented based on existing service platforms namely 2G, 3G, 4G/LTE for long-range communications (e.g. traffic and weather conditions, road works). Unfortunately the current market situation is not accounted for by the draft text which still only foresees their deployment services exclusively via ITS-G5 for short-range communications. A1 Group welcomes the proposed incorporation of a fast-track review option in Article 33, but the draft Regulation still imposes unfair obligations on other appropriate technologies to be interoperable with ITS-G5. Especially the effort and cost of maintaining compatibility and interoperability should not be incurred only on all other technologies than ITS-G5. This would equate to significant technological and industry lock-in even hindering future innovation. In this context all elements required in the proposed process of updating the DA are available for inclusion of LTE-V2X for both short and long-range modes. We are convinced that the Commission is aware of the seriousness of this regulation and will promote the most innovative technologies not excluding or limiting innovative technologies like LTE-V2X and its evolution to 5G-V2X.
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Meeting with Andrus Ansip (Vice-President) and

19 Sept 2018 · e-privacy

Meeting with Andrus Ansip (Vice-President) and

18 Sept 2018 · e-privacy

Meeting with Mariya Gabriel (Commissioner)

18 Sept 2018 · Western Balkans Roaming

Meeting with Mariya Gabriel (Commissioner)

26 Jun 2018 · Western Balkans Digital Agenda / Roaming roadmap

Meeting with Roberto Viola (Director-General Communications Networks, Content and Technology)

3 Aug 2017 · European Telecom issues

Meeting with Günther Oettinger (Commissioner) and VÖP - Verband Österreichischer Privatsender and T-Mobile Austria GmbH

23 Aug 2016 · telecom policy

Meeting with Markus Schulte (Digital Economy)

30 Jun 2016 · Telecom policy

Meeting with Michael Hager (Digital Economy)

29 Jun 2016 · telecom policy

Meeting with Jon Nyman (Cabinet of Vice-President Cecilia Malmström), Nele Eichhorn (Cabinet of Vice-President Cecilia Malmström)

19 Apr 2016 · Belarus WTO accession

Meeting with Günther Oettinger (Commissioner)

13 Apr 2016 · telecom review

Meeting with Markus Schulte (Digital Economy)

2 Mar 2016 · telco policies

Meeting with Roberto Viola (Director-General Communications Networks, Content and Technology)

22 Feb 2016 · DSM and the future of European Union legislation

Meeting with Roberto Viola (Director-General Communications Networks, Content and Technology)

14 Jan 2016 · DSM

Meeting with Eric Mamer (Digital Economy), Markus Schulte (Digital Economy)

1 Dec 2015 · DSM

Meeting with David Mueller (Cabinet of Vice-President Johannes Hahn)

26 Nov 2015 · Situation in the neighbourhood countries and challenges for the telecom sector

Meeting with Eric Mamer (Digital Economy)

16 Jun 2015 · DSM

Meeting with Kamila Kloc (Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip), Kamila Kloc (Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip)

16 Jun 2015 · Review of telecom framework.