A chart comparing the share price performance of T-Mobile, America's largest telco by market cap, with that of Germany's Deutsche Telekom and France's Orange.
"We need a reform of the of the competition policy," Höttges said onstage at MWC. "We have to be allowed to consolidate our activities."
"There is no reason that every market has to operate with three or four operators," he added. "We should build a European single market ... because, if we cannot increase our consumer prices, if we cannot charge the over-the-top players, we have to get efficiencies out of the scale which we created."