[x-pubpol] European Commission plans ambitious €100bn fibre project

[Joly MacFie]

http://www.telecoms.com/35779/european-commission-plans-ambitious-e100bn-fibre-project/

The Commission has proposed to spend €9.2bn from 2014 to 2020, to give EU
citizens and business access to broadband speeds of 100Mbps. However, this
initial €9.2bn will be used to attract additional investment to a total of
between €50bn and €100bn, with each Euro spent expected to attract another
private investment of between €6 and €15, according to the Commission.

The additional funding would come via innovative financing tools and the
purchase of high-value blue chip bonds

Projects to enhance digital service infrastructure that would be selected
for grants by the Commission include trans-European very high-speed
backbone connections for public administrations, cross-border delivery of
eGovernment and e-Health services, enabling access to public sector
information and multilingual services and pan-EU authentication of
electronic identification (eID) so that citizens and businesses can access
digital services in any member state.

It would also be used to fund electronic procurement projects, making it
easier to complete administrative procedures to set up a business in
another EU country, cooperation to take down illegal content, such as child
pornography, from the internet, coordinated responses to cyber-threats,
deployment of ICT solutions for intelligent energy networks and for the
provision of Smart Energy Services.

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