EU Digital Agenda Commissioner Neelie Kroes and European telecom regulators...
EU Digital Agenda Commissioner Neelie Kroes and European telecom regulators are committed to boosting infrastructure investment as a way out of Europe’s financial problems and for future growth, the Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (BEREC) said Friday. Its…
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representatives met with Kroes Thursday to discuss how to increase broadband connectivity, a key component of the digital internal market. The European Commission is working on several initiatives, including legislation to reduce civil engineering costs of high-speed broadband rollout, but the powwow mainly focused on a planned recommendation for harmonizing costing methodologies and putting in place non-discrimination obligations, BEREC said. It’s also working on issues in this area, including a revised common position on broadband due next month, it said. The meeting marked “an important development in BEREC’s relationship” with the EC that brings its members’ on-the-ground regulatory experience to bear on the development of the EC’s wider policy agenda, said BEREC Chair Georg Serentschy of Austrian regulator RTR.