Will we ever see a superfast Europe?
The Digital Agenda for Europe (DAE) published by the European Commission (EC) on 19 May 2010 has defined seven priority areas for action including specific targets for high- and very-high-speed (superfast) infrastructure roll-out and service take-up (by 2013: 100% basic broadband coverage; by 2020: 100% coverage of 30Mbit/s or above and 50% of households subscribing to connections of 100Mbit/s or higher).
Although operators and governments in a few countries have announced plans to roll out very-high-speed broadband infrastructure, to date deployment of superfast broadband in Europe has been limited in comparison to leading countries worldwide (as shown in Figure 1 below), and the current economic situation makes the above-mentioned targets very difficult to achieve.
For a detailed analysis of the issues read Stephane Piot of Analysys Masons full article.
