European Digital Agenda Commissioner Neelie Kroes will meet with CEOs...
European Digital Agenda Commissioner Neelie Kroes will meet with CEOs from the telecom network and equipment and Internet content industries to discuss a “holistic” approach to business models, technology and regulation, her spokesman told us Monday. A March 3 summit…
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aims to find ways to meet the goal of offering ultrafast online access to all Europeans by 2020, he said. Kroes is seeking an industry task force led by CEOs to come up with proposed solutions that would be confirmed at a second meeting in July, he said. The summit was sparked by Kroes’s concern that the EU’s 2020 broadband goals won’t be met based on current investment trends, he said. Kroes has invited Google, Microsoft, Vodafone, BT and about 40 other companies, The Sunday Telegraph reported over the weekend. She reportedly asked the companies by letter to work together to “put the interests of Europe’s citizens and businesses at the forefront of the digital revolution” and to increase research and development spending to bring everyone online. There are many more music downloads in the U.S. than in the EU because of Europe’s fragmented markets and lack of lawful offerings, Kroes was quoted as saying. The EC “intends to open up access to legal online content by simplifying copyright clearance, management and cross-border licensing,” she said.