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EC says no need for universal mobile, broadband service rule

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  • 12-04-2006 7:25pm
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    bealtine
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    A European Commission report has found no need to extend universal service rules to mobile and high-speed internet services. According to a commission statement, consumers already have widespread access to affordable mobile services, while the cost of extending broadband to everyone would outweigh the benefits to users. Based on a public consultation, the report will be submitted to the European Parliament and the Council, which are reviewing the universal service regulations with an eye to upgrading the rules for the internet era. "This report reflects a broad stakeholder consensus that bringing mobile and high-speed internet services to users is best left to the market, except where structural problems such as geographical remoteness justify specific public investment to help bridge the broadband gap," commented Information Society and Media Commissioner Viviane Reding. Many contributors to the public consultation observed that mandating any specific technology in a fast-changing technological landscape would be problematic, and that any extension of the scope of universal service and its financing would risk deterring competition, hindering investment and stifling innovation.


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    Sponge Bob
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    bealtine wrote:
    Many contributors to the public consultation observed that mandating any specific technology in a fast-changing technological landscape would be problematic, and that any extension of the scope of universal service and its financing would risk deterring competition, hindering investment and stifling innovation.
    all USO operators are legacy copper networks so thats understandable .some will invest in coper some fibre and some wireless and some all of them,

    If the USO carriers won't invest and provide the service an EU government is free (here and elsewhere) to invest in someone or something that will, such as MANs . This USO will be reviewed periodically in another 3 or 4 years as usual and they may change their tune then.

    As we never got Functional Internet Access from the last EU USO directive in 2002 I think we are a long way off a Universal BB provision from that so called USO network .


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