HARTWIG TAUBER
networked Europe!
competitive land-grab in an increasing number of countries coupled with an improving regulatory environment with more collaboration among builders and lower costs should also increase fibre roll-out in the coming years. This is phenomenal progress, and it proves that FTTH/B is poised to become the mass-market broadband enabling product in Europe. However, while the EU’s Digital Agenda Target (http:// ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda) plans that 50% of Europe’s households should be subscribed to broadband above 100 Mbps by 2020, there is a high risk (which is potentially destructive) that those connections will not be fibre-based.
fibre-access networks available to as many European households as possible is our goal, and we are confident that this is more achievable than ever.
avoid a situation in which Europe reaches its 2020 broadband targets but realises then that it took the wrong decisions. Creating a future-proof Europe based on
It is therefore necessary that decision makers in the Member States take strong measures today to ensure that future-proof broadband solutions are implemented, to
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