A wide-ranging policy debate on the scope and future of Universal Service Obligations was necessary and had to be encouraged. 

During this dinner debate we discussed about policy options for a long term reform of the Universal Service and about the key role of public policies in the development of the Information Society for all.

• Programme - 26th February 2008

  Chair: Malcolm Harbour, MEP and EIF Governor

  Speakers:

  Dániel Pataki, President, National Communications Authority of Hungary (NHH) and ERG Chairman

  Paul Reynolds, Founding Director of CEG (Competition Economists Group)

  Pierre Antoine Badoz, Director Public Affairs, Orange France Telecom Group