Kroes wants broadband Internet for all Europeans by 2013

European Commissioner Neelie Kroes (Digital Agenda) on Monday presented plans for a common EU approach on ultra-fast broadband and mobile networks. She announced that the European Commission has adopted a Recommendation indicating to national telecoms regulators how they should regulate third-party competitive access to ultra-fast fibre networks (also known as 'next generation access' -- NGA -- networks) that bring high-speed broadband connections to homes and workplaces.

Regulators should apply the new guidance in their daily decision making as soon as the text has been published in the EU's Official Journal. Under the telecoms Framework Directive (2002/21/EC) they are obliged to take "utmost account of the Commission's Recommendation, justifying any departure from it. The Recommendation provides regulatory clarity to telecom operators, ensuring an appropriate balance between the need to encourage investment and the need to safeguard competition. It will help to stimulate investment in competitive high-speed broadband networks, which is a key objective of the Commission's Digital Agenda for Europe and Europe 2020 strategy. The Recommendation forms part of a package of broadband measures.

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[44lucas]

European bubble talk from a person responsible for shutting down Polish shipyards which received state aid far lesser then all those stimulous packages across western EU. She's a dogmatic when it doesn't hurt her or her cronies but looks the other way when France or Germany need some taxpayer cash.

[darwincity]

European doublespeak at its best... OFF WITH THEIR HEADS, as one would say...

[danben72]

Ms. Kroes why don't you put yourself and your crony colleagues a metalchain instead of your flower power necklace around your neck and jump into the next deep freezing river.

[makedonce1986]

There is really an optimal infrastructure in great parts of europe, where fiber can be combined with coaxial cable or copper cable. The state of the art multiplexing technologies combined with fiber and the optimal infrastructure are just great. I think broadband should be no challenge in europe.