{"id":1905,"date":"2012-10-20T01:14:46","date_gmt":"2012-10-20T00:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=1905"},"modified":"2012-10-19T15:44:15","modified_gmt":"2012-10-19T14:44:15","slug":"uk-and-european-leaders-support-gbp7-5bn-superfast-broadband-boost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2012\/10\/uk-and-european-leaders-support-gbp7-5bn-superfast-broadband-boost.html","title":{"rendered":"UK and European Leaders Support GBP7.5bn Superfast Broadband Boost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.european-council.europa.eu\" target=\"_blank\">European Council<\/a>, which is represented by the leaders of each member state (e.g. UK Prime Minister, David Cameron), yesterday set aside its doubts and gave explicit support to the <strong>Connecting Europe Facility<\/strong> (CEF) and its proposed investment of <strong>\u20ac9.2bn<\/strong> (almost \u00a37.5bn) into the delivery of faster broadband services.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The apparent endorsement was welcomed by the vice president of the <a class=\"shortlink shortlink-101 shortlink-chref\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/ec\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"european commission\" data-chref=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/info\/index_en\">European Commission<\/a>&#8217;s (EC) <strong>Digital Agenda<\/strong> project, <strong>Neelie Kroes<\/strong>, whom expressed concern last month after the Cypriot Presidency suggested that a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2012\/09\/europe-reconsiders-eur9-2bn-digital-agenda-superfast-broadband-funding.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>lack of support<\/strong><\/a> existed among national governments and called for the level of investment to be &#8220;<em>reconsidered<\/em>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>But in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/uedocs\/cms_data\/docs\/pressdata\/en\/ec\/133004.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">new statement<\/a> the European Council has outlined its support for the CEF and described it as &#8220;<em>an important instrument to promote growth through investment in transport, energy and ICT links<\/em>&#8220;. 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The extra money would be used to help make superfast broadband (<strong>30Mbps+<\/strong>) services available to <strong>100% of Europeans by 2020<\/strong> (including in the UK).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Council, which is represented by the leaders of each member state (e.g. UK Prime Minister, David Cameron), yesterday set aside its doubts and gave explicit support to the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) and its proposed investment of \u20ac9.2bn (almost \u00a37.5bn) into the delivery of faster broadband services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[37,85,38],"class_list":["post-1905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uk_isp_news","tag-digital-agenda","tag-europe","tag-politics"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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