European Utilities Telecom Council
European Utilities Telecom Council (EUTC) represents the telecommunications and information technology interests of Europe's electric, gas and water utilities, as well as other critical infrastructure organisations.
For decades European Utilities Telecom Council’s members have constructed, owned and managed some of Europe’s largest private fibre and wireless communications networks used to ensure safe, secure and reliable delivery of essential utility services. Today, European utilities are
faced with new regulatory, technological and business challenges to maintain the high quality of these private networks. At the same time, many are actively engaged in using their telecom experience to develop and deliver new competitive commercial communication services to better serve their communities.
As such, European Utilities Telecom Council's primary purpose is to create a favourable regulatory, technical, and business environment in which its members will:
Today’s Unique Environment
The services provided by utilities have become a matter of special social interest. In today’s culture, the services provided by utilities are vital and a loss of service creates an immediate social reaction. For this reason, the quality requirements imposed by regulators are becoming more onerous. Without the highest quality telecommunications, it is not possible to warrant the delivery of the highest quality utility services.
At the same time, technology is rapidly changing the role of telecommunications in Europe’s electric, gas and water utilities and other critical infrastructure companies. Companies are faced with new challenges often associated with a change in ownership, as well as more competitive energy and telecommunications environments.
Professionals in the industry are facing new challenges ranging from introducing new wireless communications systems to managing internal telecoms businesses. In some countries, new service delivery solutions are being implemented in a move toward managed services, while other countries operate in a shared services environment through exploitation of their telecoms assets.
To meet these varied needs, the European Utilities Telecom Council has been created by the Utilities Telecom Council to more directly address the unique needs of its European members.
Background
The Utilities Telecom Council (UTC) was created in 1948 by utilities in the United States to help them begin using new wireless communications technologies. Since then, UTC’s membership has expanded into companies around world and the issues addressed have broadened to encompass everything from private radio systems to high-speed fibre networks. UTC offers its members a wide range of legal and regulatory services, education and training programs, research and information products, and spectrum engineering
services.
Recognizing the immediate specific needs of its European members, UTC established the European Utilities Telecom Council as an autonomous part of UTC with its own European Board of Directors and budget to ensure that programs in Europe will be led by Europeans, designed for Europeans and be uniquely European in focus.
European Utilities Telecom Council Plans for the Future
The European Utilities Telecom Council accomplishes its mission of creating a favourable regulatory, technical, and business environment;
by being: