Welcome to the Tech Policy Podcast.

I'm Evan Schwarzenegger, your host.

Joining me for today's show is Dominique Lazansky, public policy director at GSM,

an international trade association representing mobile operators, and dedicated

to supporting the mobile industry in its work, including standards, infrastructure deployment,

and other related activities. She is based in London, but joining us in D.C. today. So, Dominique,

thank you for coming by the office. Thank you very much. So I wanted to start with kind of just a

general discussion of where tech policy in Europe is today. Most of these shows, we talk about

tech policy in the United States, but of course the Internet is naturally a global entity,

and it's important to see what our friends across the pond are up to. So what's the state of play?

So we have a variety of issues going on within Europe, and Europe being the

28 member states that belong to the European Union at the moment. And those issues are related

to digital policy in general, digital commerce, internet issues, infrastructure issues, things

along those lines. In particular, there's quite a number of specific things that are going on.

We've recently seen the European Union investigating Google for antitrust issues, especially

around the Android operating system.

We're also seeing the greater implementation of the digital single market where roaming rates across member

states for mobile users, which tend to be most people in Europe at the moment, are going

to be terminated completely by the end of next year.

And let's just, we'll start with that one.

So we had Massimiliano, Trevato, who you know from an Italian think tank on the show to

talk a little bit about the DSM. But for listeners who didn't hear that one, the digital single

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