Pour passer de la premiere a la deuxieme phase - ce qui est l'objectif de la demarche que la Commission demande au Conseil de decider - les PTT devront consentir quelque 6 a 7 milliards d'Ecus en investissements necessaires a poursuivre la numerisation du reseau telephonique actuel.
In order to advance from phase one to phase two - which is the obkjective of the procedure that the Commission is asking the Council to adopt - the PTTs will have to invest some 6 000 to 7 000 million ECU by 1993, in addition to the investments necessary for the continued digitization of the present telephone networrk.