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"Mr President, there has been a change over to electronic capitalism, both in Europe and worldwide. On the stock markets, there is a ‘gold rush’ for the shares of IT companies – IT shares are a present-day Klondyke. The reports by Mr Paasilinna and Mr Alyssandrakis emphasise the necessity of rules even for gold prospecting: if the common and public interest is not secured, the richest, largest and fastest players will take all, and they will reap all the fruits of the new technological developments. A rapid concentration of the information industry is in progress – at the consumers’ expense. The battle over market shares for next generation mobile phone frequencies, for example, will raise consumer prices sky high. As we know, the profit from these shares will ultimately always be generated through the prices of telephone calls. We must now ensure that public interest is secured – as proposed by Mr Alyssandrakis – and ensure the availability of sufficient frequency bands for use by public broadcasting. This will not be possible if such a restricted natural resource as the radio spectrum is auctioned off for the monopolised use of the highest bidding major companies."@en1
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