Europe needs more broadband connections
A report by the European Commission, named ‘Bridging the Broadband Gap’, calls for more efforts to increase broadband usage in the European Union, especially in rural areas. The paper notes that 13% of the EU’s 450 million citizens currently have a broadband connection. It calls for a united plan to increase broadband take up and catch up with the US and Japan.
“It also notes that the European Union is catching up with its main competitors, such as the US, where broadband take-up stood at 14.5 per cent at the end of 2005, Japan, with a rate of 16.4 per cent and South Korea with a rate of 25.5 per cent. However, the Commission fears that the take up of broadband is not proceeding fast enough, particularly in rural areas, and that Europe could be left behind as other countries race to connect their entire populations to broadband.”
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Administrator @ March 23, 2006