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"To promote innovation, business development, the civil growth of European society and freedom of consumer choice, it is necessary to introduce broadband infrastructure, and especially in the most remote areas which often see the highest levels of failure to invest in digital technology.
The information issued by the director of the Directorate-General for Regional Policy, Rudolf Niessler, during the ‘Every European Digital’ event, is not comforting in this regard: only 418 million, of a total of 2.3 billion earmarked to promote the spread of broadband in EU countries, has actually been used. These funds have not, though, been channelled in the right way. This is because, sometimes, projects are unconvincing for investors or they go against the priorities of individual states, whose governments are obliged to make economic savings, at the expense of a broad common view of the future, as the EU hopes.
The percentage of homes connected to broadband in Italy is less than 50%, compared with a European average of 61%. However, without broadband, Italy, like other countries, risks soon being relegated to the second division compared with other countries where extensive use has been made of earmarked funds and it is the level of investments and competitiveness that will lose out."@en1
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