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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8924

9 April 2005
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/information society
Commission seeks to open up new markets to promote high-speed internet access via electricity grid

Brussels, 08/04/2005 (Agence Europe) - The Commission on Thursday adopted a recommendation by the written procedure on “broadband electronic communications through electric power cables” ailing to facilitate the use of power lines to allow cheap and high-speed internet access and to clarify the rules for the use of power lines to transmit electronic data. It also wants to increase competition for infrastructures by opening up the market to new providers of high-speed and broadband...

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