Comment Neelie (Kroes)

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Comment Neelie
[...] First, the roads. The Digital Agenda sets clear targets to give every European access to basic broadband by 2013, and to fast and ultra fast broadband by 2020. To achieve that we are working together with the industry, and we are putting our money where our mouth is. On top of the substantial investment we have already made, such as through structural funds, we are proposing a new “Connecting Europe Facility”. This could leverage over €100 billion of private investment supporting deployment of broadband and pan-European digital public services. Supporting investment particularly in the harder-to-reach rural areas currently more at risk of exclusion.
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