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Author Topic: EU Moots Softer Fibre Optic Broadband Regulation to Boost Roll-out  (Read 955 times)

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EU Moots Softer Fibre Optic Broadband Regulation to Boost Roll-out
« on: September 08, 2016, 11:29:10 AM »

EU Moots Softer Fibre Optic Broadband Regulation to Boost Roll-out

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A leaked document has revealed that the European Commission could be about to relax its regulation of the telecoms market (this would also affect the United Kingdom) in order to encourage the roll-out of faster broadband into rural areas, which might allow the use of state aid for closed networks.

The United Kingdom will remain a member of the EU for at least a couple more years’ and even after Brexit we could potentially still find ourselves being attached to some of the same rules, thus any decision that the EU makes is currently still very relevant.

At present the UK is already expected to make fixed line based “superfast broadband” (24-30Mbps+) networks available to around 97% of premises by 2019, but tackling the final 3% would be incredibly expensive and so far the only solution being proposed is a 10Mbps Universal Service Obligation (USO); this might even be at least partly met via inferior Satellite connectivity.
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