Governments must maintain European Commission-proposed funding levels for cross-border financing...
Governments must maintain European Commission-proposed funding levels for cross-border financing of communications infrastructure, the European Telecommunications Network Operators’ Association said Wednesday. Ministers and state secretaries for European affairs meeting Thursday to discuss the EU 2014-2020 financial framework must safeguard the…
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Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) plan to allocate 9.2 billion euros ($11.6 billion) for the e-communications sector, ETNO said. More than two billion euros of that is intended to boost development of broadband-based, pan-European digital service infrastructure in the areas of e-health, cybersecurity, intelligent energy networks and a coordinated effort to stop online child pornography, it said. The remaining 7 billion euros should be used to facilitate further rollout of next-generation access networks in Europe, it said. The CEF will leverage infrastructure investment by lowering risks of public and private organizations, it said. Reduction of CEF funding could endanger its effectiveness and harm the overall European economy, it said.