The European Commission has proposed to spend €9 billion from 2014 to 2020 on high-speed broadband deployment projects in Europe and an additional €9 billion on trans-European energy infrastructure.
The European Commission has announced that EU mobile operators will have to once again lower retail prices of roaming calls in the EU. The final goal of the EU is to end mobile roaming surcharges by 2015 by boosting competition in the market, the Commission adds.
The European Commission has published a scoreboard covering the period from May 2010 to May 2011 of how successfully Member States are delivering the agreed targets of the Digital Agenda for Europe after the first year of its existence.
A pan-EU Eurobarometer survey showed that 44% of Internet users feel they are missing interesting information because web pages are not in a language they understand. The survey, released in May 2011, shows that 90% of Internet surfers in the EU prefer to access websites in their own language, while 55% at least occasionally use
Following the success of “Get Online Day 2010” when 68,000 people were reached, Telecentre Europe, a network dedicated to sharing knowledge and forming partnerships committed to increasing the impact of telecentres in Europe, is organizing a Europe wide campaign to get new computer users online.
Europeans are becoming increasingly “digital” according to a European Commission Eurobarometer survey which questioned 27,000 households throughout the EU on their use of internet, telephones and TV. The survey showed that more Europeans are subscribing to broadband internet, however, internet users surveyed have expressed concerns about cost, quality of service and security, as well as
Currently Europe as a region has the highest average levels of broadband take-up worldwide (24.8%) but its networks need to be further developed and upgraded. Today only 1% of Europeans have a high-speed fibre internet connection directly to their homes, compared to 12% of Japanese and 15% of South Koreans. The European Commission thus adopted
As open and neutral internet underpins many of the targets set out in the Digital Agenda for Europe, in June the European Commission launched a consultation on key questions arising from the issue of net neutrality.