The study provides comprehensive data on 2018 retail prices of fixed broadband offers for consumers in the EU28, Iceland, Norway, Japan, South Korea, Canada and the USA. The five largest Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in each country were included. Data was collected from ISP websites between 8th and 22nd October 2018.
The Broadband Coverage in Europe study is designed to monitor the progress of EU Member States towards the specific broadband coverage objectives set out in the Digital Agenda for Europe – namely: ‘Universal Broadband Coverage with speeds at least 30 Mbps by 2020’ and ‘Broadband take-up of 50% of households with speeds at least 100 Mbps by 2020’.
Holidays can be an ideal opportunity to explore data and insights about Europe’s digital economy and society. The following 5 tips help curious readers to learn details about the European Digital Single Market make the best of the recently updated Digital Economy and Society Index (DESI).
The "Women in Digital" scoreboard is one of the actions put in place to assess women's inclusion in digital jobs, careers and entrepreneurship. The scoreboard assesses Member States' performance in the areas of Internet use, Internet user skills as well as specialist skills and employment based on 13 indicators.
The main objective of the study is to monitor the progress in the deployment of broadband networks, i.e. to measure primarily the household coverage of different fixed and wireless broadband technologies with a special focus on next generation access technologies and very high capacity broadband. The data to be collected should be as of the middle of the year (2019 in the first year). The deadline for submission: 07/05/2019 16.00 CET (study reference: Smart 2019/0020)
The European Commission re-launches a call for tenders for “Study on eGovernment benchmark 2020” (reference: SMART 2019/0021-, with a value of EUR 400 000. The purpose of this call for tenders is to obtain a quantitative overview of the status of modernisation of the public sector in a set of relevant countries and disseminate such overview to interested stakeholders and to the public in general.
The purpose of this call for tenders is to analyse Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) issues related to works/inventions generated by Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems in various fields, in particular in areas of pharmaceutical research, science and media (study reference: SMART 2018/0052)
The study provides comprehensive data on 2017 retail prices of fixed broadband offers for consumers in the EU28, Iceland, Norway, Japan, South Korea, Canada and the USA. The five largest Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in each country were included. Data was collected from ISP websites between 10th and 24th October 2017.
