Memo: Digital Agenda: EU Telecoms Council: expected decision on radio spectrum to open the way for growth in the sector

Neelie Kroes, European Commission Vice-President for the Digital Agenda, welcomed the formal endorsement of legislation needed to make radio spectrum available for wireless broadband by 2013, at the EU's Council of Telecoms Ministers meeting in Brussels on 13th December 2011. In addition Vice-President Kroes presented to the Council the Connecting Europe Facility and an Open Data Strategy for Europe.

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European Commission: SPEECH/11/866: ICT for democracy: supporting a global current of change http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=SPEECH/11/866&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en

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