The European Union announced its 5G Action Plan last week, and president Jean-Claude Juncker set out some ambitious connectivity goals in his State of the Union address. These include promises to enable free WiFi in public spaces in every town and village in the EU states, and to achieve “full deployment” of 5G by 2025 (including railways). As an interim goal, it repeated the goal of having commercial 5G in at least one town or city per EU country by 2020. This will only be possible if other EC plans come to fruition, including planned reforms to spectrum policy and the Electronic Communications Code. Juncker said: “The Commission is proposing a reform for our European telecommunications markets. We want to…