Investing in the future of jobs and skills: Post and telecommunications - Sector report

Post and telecoms were amongst the most changing sectors of the 1990s. Both sectors have now been privatised and opened up to competition following EU liberalisation law. The EU employed about 3.3 million post and telecoms workers in 2006. A large share of them, 83%, was working in the EU-15 and this share has not changed during the last seven years. Report summaries for post and telecommunications are available.