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Vice President Neelie Kroes welcomed Member States' endorsement of the draft EU Directive on broadband cost reduction. Civil engineering, such as the digging up of roads to lay down fibre broadband, accounts for up to 80% of the cost of deploying high-speed networks and the Commission's proposal aimed to save companies a staggering €40 - 60 billion.

Today the European Parliament approved a €1 billion investment package to support pan-European digital projects and high-speed broadband networks. Members of the European Parliament voted in their Plenary session to support the digital part of the Connecting Europe Facility proposed by the Commission in 2011 to improve Europe's transport, energy and digital networks.

Final Report of the Broadband Coverage in Europe in 2012 (BCE 2012) project that was commissioned by the Directorate General for Communications Networks, Content
and Technology, DG Connect.

Flyer on solution for broadband connection in rural areas published by esoa - European Satellite Operators Association.

Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing the Connecting Europe Facility. This proposal contains results of consultations with the interested parties and impact assessments, legal elements of the proposal, budgetary implication and the proposed content for the regulation itself, such as subject matters, general and specific objectives, budget, forms of financing and financial provisions, grants, procurement processes, financial instruments related to CEF, provisions on programming, implementation and control.

With a proposed budget of €50 billion between 2014 and 2020, the Connecting Europe Facility will be a key instrument to promote growth, jobs and competitiveness through targeted
infrastructure investment at European level. It will support the development of high-performing, sustainable and efficiently interconnected trans-European networks in the fields of transport, energy and digital services.

Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on specific provisions concerning the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)and the Investment for growth and jobs goal and repealing Regulation (EC) No 1080/2006.

EU Guidelines for the application of state aid rules to the deployment of broadband networks.

In this white paper the FTTH council compares the performance characteristics of fibre-based access technologies
with those of the latest copper-based access technologies.
The technologies considered are: Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) family of technologies, and Coaxial cable networks based on Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification (DOCSIS),
including current generation DOCSIS 3.0 and the next-generation standard DOCSIS 3.1.

Short information on satellite broadband by broadband4all.