High-speed broadband access is a key enabler of small online business; connectivity being one of the four GEN building blocks. We therefore strongly support the EU’s gigabit society goals of supplying every European with access to at least 30 Mbps of connectivity and to provide half of European households with connectivity rates of 100 Mbps by 2020. Fast and cheap connectivity needs to reach all rural areas of the EU.
In order to achieve these goals, the European Commission should push for a speedy and ambitious implementation of the recently adopted Electronic Communications Code at the national level.