{"id":9391,"date":"2010-05-20T21:19:35","date_gmt":"2010-05-21T04:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/?post_type=news&#038;p=9391"},"modified":"2018-08-08T17:40:53","modified_gmt":"2018-08-08T17:40:53","slug":"euro-broadband-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/euro-broadband-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"European Union Broadband Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9392\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9392\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-9392 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/european-union-flag-S-e1429591723830.jpg\" alt=\"The European Union promises universal broadband by 2013.\" width=\"390\" height=\"254\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-9392\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The European Union promises universal broadband by 2013.<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">MAY 20, 2010 \u2022\u00a0The European Union has pledged that 50% of European households will have broadband speeds of 30Mbps by 2020. As part of the EU&#8217;s five year plan for the digital economy, universal broadband coverage is set for 2013. The EU estimates that nearly a third of Europeans have never used the internet and only 1% had access to \ufb01ber-based high-speed networks. \u00a0The plan is for\u00a0EU governments are expected to double their annual spending on broadband research and development to \u20ac11 billion ($13.4 billion) by 2020.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em>Impact: Broadband penetration is a key driver in the usage of online applications.\u00a0 However, the actual speed of the broadband connection varies greatly and we are finding it makes a huge difference in the usage of products like online games.\u00a0 Korea has the highest spending per capita on online games and also the fastest broadband speed with average speeds of about 15 Mbps.\u00a0 In DFC tracking we have seen significant downloads coming from countries like Romania.\u00a0 Surprisingly (or not so surprisingly given our usage tracking) Romania has the fastest broadband speeds in Europe with speeds approaching that of places like Japan and Hong Kong.\u00a0 Right now slower broadband speeds in North America and Western Europe have limited consumer acceptance of digital distribution. \u00a0Increasing broadband speed to 30 Mbps would allow for almost seamless digital distribution.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MAY 20, 2010 \u2022\u00a0The European Union has pledged that 50% of European households will have broadband speeds of 30Mbps by 2020. As part of the EU&#8217;s five year plan for the digital economy, universal broadband coverage is set for 2013. The EU estimates that nearly a third of Europeans have never used the internet and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[280,168,78,134],"tags":[282,415,310],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9391"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9391"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16843,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9391\/revisions\/16843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}