I. Introduction
Since the European Electronic Communications Code (EECC) was
released in December 2018, many in the industry have described its
effects on providers of EU telecoms and communications
related OTT services. None have analyzed the EECC's impact on
large business end-users of those services and how they
can benefit from those effects. That changes now – If you are
a large business-end user of EU telecoms and communications related
OTT services, read on.
II. What is the European Electronic Communications Code?
The European Electronic Communications Code is a consolidation,
simplification, clarification/expansion of regulation of electronic
communications services (ECS) in a technology neutral manner, and
harmonization of regulation across the EU. It aims to minimize ex
ante regulation of ECS providers to what is necessary to protect
end-users of the services. It consolidates and simplifies existing
regulation by replacing four EU directives – the
