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excerpt from: Italian leadership for a connected continent

[...] We are helping this to happen. For private investment we have new EU rules: so it's cheaper to roll out broadband. We have the stable framework allowing a fair return on investment. And we have on the table legal proposals to connect our continent and bring down the barriers in our telecoms single market – a proposal which I hope the Presidency will move forward with fast.

Until you support real innovation and alternative networks you will find that the telcos pull the wool over the eyes of the funding administrators and use the money to patch up their obsolete copper networks. This is happening in the UK and the digital divide is growing ever wider, with those on long lines condemned to the internet slow lane. This is covered up by wonderful statistics and multimillion pound marketing budgets. We need fibre for a connected continent. Moral and Optic.

Chris Conder, 09/07/2014 10:05