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EU action to boost rural broadband

date:  28/06/2018

Find out about the European Commission’s action plan to roll out broadband throughout Europe’s rural areas – read the perspective of Jan Dröge, team-leader of the Broadband Competence Offices Network Support Facility.

The plan aims to boost rural broadband investments through actions such as developing a common methodology for planning, reporting, and monitoring of investments, broadband missions to rural areas, a ‘rural proof test’, and designing a framework to help implement investments.