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EU commissioner N Kroes outlines five-year plan for telecommunications industry |
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Neelie Kroes, the European Commissioner for the digital agenda has outlined a five-year plan for telecommunications companies that contains measures to support legal music downloads, enhance broadband adoption and set up a rapid response system for cyber-attacks, the Commission said last week.  The EU's digital agenda will oversee seven areas, viz. creating a digital single market, interoperability, Internet trust and security, broadband, investment in research and development, enhancing digital literacy skills and inclusion, and using information and communications technology (ICT) to combat wider issues such as climate change. Kroes said legal music downloads in the US were four times higher than in Europe, and the reason for that was the lack of legal offers and a fragmented market. As part of her plan, the Commission will try to simplify copyright clearances and cross-border licensing by the end of the year. Kroes' plan also intends to bring broadband access to more people. According to the Digital Agenda, by 2013, all Europeans should have access to broadband. By 2020, at least half of all European households should have subscribed to Internet access above 100 Mbps. For now, the Agenda did not outline the details of exactly how Krones plans to achieve this, though later in the year the Commission is expected to bring out a common framework for realizing the goal including plans to attract capital with the backing of the European Investment Bank. To further the agenda of online safety to a point where digital technologies can actually improve people's daily lives, the Commission said the Agenda includes plans for a better, coordinated European response to cyber attacks, identity theft and spam. The Commission also plans to come out with stronger rules on personal data protection later this year. The Commission urged member states of the European Union to double their annual public spending on research and development to €11 billion ($14 billion) by 2020, in line with European programs. Commissioner Kroes believes achieving all these goals outlined in the Digital Agenda would be challenging, though not unrealistic. |
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