Tuesday, October 7, 2014

EU's super-commish for tech: Geo-blocks on cat vids, music – NOT FAIR

Andrus Ansip, the new EU super-commissioner for all things digital, says he will work to completely abolish geo-blocking of media in Europe – and urged telcos to get on with pushing out high-speed mobile broadband.

What started out as a relatively boring and predictable hearing before the European Parliament on Monday took a turn for the interesting in the final minutes: the rather wooden Ansip took issue with incumbent telecoms companies for sitting back and not rolling out 4G.

“In some countries almost 90 per cent of the territory is covered by 4G LTE, in some other countries it is zero! They haven’t even started allocating that spectrum. Once again I think we have to talk about vested interests,” he said.


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