Brussels, 09/03/2004 (Agence Europe) - The European Commission has welcomed the results of the Telecommunications Council of 8 March (EUROPE yesterday p 10). It highlighted the up beat mood of the Council which it attributes to the announcements from industry over recent weeks of a range of new mobile data services and devices and continuing strong growth in broadband which now reaches around 6% of the EU population (a total of 20 million lines).
Reacting to the results of today's Council,...