Showing posts with label eu. Show all posts
Showing posts with label eu. Show all posts
Friday, May 5, 2017
249 Billion Euros 277 Billion Needed to Deliver Fixed Network Gigabit in EU Study Suggests
249 Billion Euros 277 Billion Needed to Deliver Fixed Network Gigabit in EU Study Suggests
As you would guess, a study of gigabit Internet access costs, conducted by Analysys Mason for the European Community, suggests targeted enterprise connections cost the least of the fixed access alternatives, while ubiquitous fixed network gigabit networks cost most.
Ubiquitous 50-Mbps mobile access costs less than any fixed method, though not providing the same amount of bandwidth. That assessment could change over time.
Analysys Mason expects that by 2025, it will be possible for 1-Gbps peak speed to be provided from the macro cell network, with average speed around 180 Mbps.
The study authors note that other alternatives, including fixed wireless, cable TV technology and satellite will be capable of delivering gigabit speeds by 2025.
Still, Analysys Mason was asked to model only the “enterprise” deployment, mass market gigabit access (functionally limited to fiber to home or node) and mobile connectivity.
Fixed wireless, satellite and hybrid fiber coax were not modeled. Some of us might argue that might be reasonable for many of the European Community nations, if not necessarily the model that will develop on other regions.
source: European Commission
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Friday, March 24, 2017
Academics stress importance of preserving consistency and integrity of EU framework on content monitoring
Academics stress importance of preserving consistency and integrity of EU framework on content monitoring
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| Professor Kat McKitten |
Among other things, the letter focuses on proposed action in relation to content monitoring by intermediaries in the context of the so called value gap proposal [Recitals 38-39 and Article 13 of the proposal for a directive on copyright in the digital single market], and stresses how the rationale of the existing prohibition of a general monitoring obligation on online intermediaries [as resulting from Article 15 of the ECommerce Directive] is rooted within a number of central objectives, including:
- the encouragement of innovation, which is essential for the flourishing of the Digital Single Market; and
- the protection of fundamental rights of all internet users, including those laid down in Article 7 and 8, Articles 9, 10 and 14 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union.
- maintain the prohibition of general monitoring obligations and make sure that exceptions to general monitoring obligations are always narrowly construed, always pursue a legitimate aim, are always based on a clear and foreseeable legal ground and are always proportionate;
- make sure that a discussion on the importance of Articles 14 and 15 of the ECommerce Directive is undertaken;
- open a public and transparent discussion on the interplay between the proposed copyright directive and the ECommerce Directive.
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