Learning on ScreenTransforming the Digital Dividend into Social Benefits and Economic Growth, COM(2009) 586 final
- Title
- Transforming the Digital Dividend into Social Benefits and Economic Growth, COM(2009) 586 final
- Date
- 28 Oct 2009
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- Publisher
- European Commission
- Category
- Policy Documents
- Subject
- New Technology; Television; Telecommunications
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- Description
- Communication from the European Commission to the European Parliament based on the results of a public consultation and the report Exploiting the Digital Dividend - a European Approach (qv). It asks the EU Member States to speed up the switch-off of analogue TV and complete it by 1 January 2012. The proposals also seek to realise the considerable economic impact of effective coordination of the digital dividend. To do this, they set out how one part of the freed-up spectrum can be set aside to support the emergence of new wireless services (such as 3G and 4G mobile phone services) that allow video streaming, full web browsing and fast downloads on a mobile handset. This will contribute to achieving the target of high-speed broadband coverage of 100% of the EU population by the end of 2013.
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