وحسب حكومة المملكة المتحدة، فإن مسألة الخطوط الهاتفية في الإقليم قد أُثيرت على المستوى الثنائي في اجتماعاتها مع السلطات الاسبانية وعلى مستوى اللجنة الأوروبية حيث لا تزال قيد النظر.
According to a statement made by the Spanish Foreign Minister in February 2001, Spain will not accede to Gibraltar's request for one million additional telephone lines because, “from any point of view, it is disproportionate for a population of barely 30,000 inhabitants and, in order to make these lines available, our firms would have to compete with companies that would offer telephone services from Gibraltar without charging the 16 per cent VAT applicable in Spain”.19