EU Broadband Policy and current status

Dr Nancy Pascall

DG CONNECT, European Commission

27 April 2016

Connected for Health

Some interesting predictions

• "I think there is a world market for maybe 5 computers" – Thomas Watson, chairman IBM 1943

"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home" – Ken Olson, Digital Equipment Corporation, 1977

"The subscription model of buying music is bankrupt!" – Steve Jobs, 2003

•And they mainly talked about equipment!

•What about connectivity?

•What about applications?

A few years later (not that many) …

Internet surrounds us and we use it to our benefit be it for work or pleasure

HALF of EU enterprises provide mobile devices for business use

276.5 million EUR turnover of EU B2C eCommerce (2012)

14% of EU SMEs selling online

29% of EU enterprises use e-Invoices

28% EU enterprises use Social media

38% EU venture capital is in ICT

DIGITAL BUSINESS

DIGITAL ECONOMY 72% of EU individuals uses INTERNET regularly

900 000 estimated demand/supply gap by 2020

150 Million subscriptions fixed Broadband

130 mobile subscriptions per 100 people

ICT drives 1/3rd EU GDP growth 1995-2007

2.4% of workforce

+ 4.1% yearly employment growth

ICT professionals

55% work outside ICT sector

7% of GDP Size of the digital economy

6% of Gov't R&D is ICT

17% of business

R&D by ICT sector

ICT sector

4.4%

ICT in Other Sectors

17% EU patents are in ICT

825 000 estimated EU demand/supply gap by 2020

2.8% of EU workforce

3-4% yearly employment growth

ICT PROFESSIONALS

55% work outside of ICT sector

17% EU patents in ICT

43% EU risk capital in ICT companies

11% of Internet suscriptions >100 Mb 19% of Internet suscriptions >30 Mb & <100Mb

75% mobile Broadband penetration

INTERENET ECONOMY

EUR 700 billion = 5% of the GDP

EU high tech sector employed 8.5 million people – almost 4% of total employment in 2013

Internet of Things will create almost EUR 330 million of new revenues by 2020

ICT and Internet economy are very important for EU development

Some more Statistics

Two elements: *Connectivity: crucial for the good functioning of the Internet Economy;

* Regulation: players expanding their position in the value chain

Digital Single Market is based on three pillars

Digital Single Market

Better access for consumers

and businesses to digital goods and services

across Europe

Creating the right

conditions for digital

networks and services to

flourish

Maximising the growth potential of the Digital Economy

eHealth and DSM Strategy

• PILLAR III:

• Maximising the growth potential of the digital economy (Action 15)

• "Define priorities for standards & interoperability in areas critical to the Digital Single Market, such as: eHealth, transport planning or energy (smart metering)"

Demographic change in a 'storm of crises'

…TO… …POLICY VISION

EU Silver Economy Strategy (March 2015)

http://bit.ly/1yiVfF2

Vision: Turn the Demographic Change into an opportunity for Europe

SILVER ECONOMY: FROM… …MAINSTREAM

DEBATE

•The Silver Economy is full of opportunities …

Societal Challenge

Major Opportunity

••• 14

Dependency Ratio

•From 1:4 to 1:2

•80+ doubles by 2025

Cost of Care

•Up by 4-8 % of GDP by 2025

Human Resources

•Shrinking work force •Lacking 20 million carers by 2020

Empowerment

•Active Ageing

New Care Models

•Home based

•Integrated care

•Large Efficiency gains

Growth and Markets

•3000 B€ wealth

•85 Million Consumers - and growing

• Large scale uptake of digital innovation

DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGE

What IS the… Silver economy?

• Money spent by consumers, companies, and governments on products, services and activities as people age

• Employment, personal income, corporate revenue and profit, personal and corporate paid taxes, and other macroeconomic multiplier benefits

• Productivity increases from changes that integrate the physical capabilities and behaviours of workers aged 50+

• Value creation by new 50+ entrepreneurs

• Tangible and intangible benefits of retaining older skilled workers

Some possible lead markets

• Scaling up innovative health and care services for active and healthy ageing

• Age friendly / smart homes

• Senior / off season tourism

• Age friendly cities

• Age friendly workplaces

National/regional initiatives (FR, DE, UK, PL,)

http://bit.ly/1yiVfF2

THE SILVER ECONOMY

Europe-wide cooperation • Horizon 2020

• Innovation Partnership

• Smart specialisation

• EIT KIC on Healthy living and Active Ageing

H2020 Priorities 2016-2017

•Infectious Diseases

•InnovFin

•Human

•biomonitoring

•Maternal and child health

• eHealth

•Active and

•healthy ageing

•Personalised

•medicine

Drivers for success

• Prizes

• Markets

• Technologies

• Europe-wide cooperation

2 Million € prize for best solution to the ageing challenge

In early 2016 the European Commission will launch a Horizon Prize that rewards the innovator or team who comes up with the best solution to address the challenges and opportunities of ageing and to improve the quality of life of senior citizens. Their breakthrough will receive €2 million from Horizon 2020. http://europa.eu/!ck76Xw

The other challenges were: Childhood obesity, Citizens for clean energy Integration of immigrants in the labour market Women entrepreneurship and women-led enterprises

Region Skane

University Hospital Olomouc

City of Oulu

Coimbra

Southern Denmark

Collage (3)

Saxony

Ile-de-France Pays de la Loire

Lower-Rhine Council Languedoc-Roussillon

Liguria Campania

Friuli Venezia Giulia Emilia-Romagna

Piemonte

Northern Netherlands Twente

Province of Gelderland and Overjssel

South Holland Province Noord-Brabant:

Slimmer Leven

Galicia Basque Country

Madrid Catalonia Valencia

Andalusia

Liverpool Scotland

Northern Ireland Wales

Yorkshire

Reference Sites - coverage

EIP on Active & Healthy Ageing

TECHNOLOGY NOW?

DIGITISATION

OF HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS

Mobile broadband Wearable and portable

systems mHealth Apps,

Impact of Chronic disease (NCD)

data mining

for predicting short- and long-term

health risks and trends

Big Data analysis enabling early detection and minimisation of risks associated with ageing, e.g. cognitive impairment, frailty, depression and falls

to empower individuals in their everyday life

provide personalised intervention depending on

detailed user characteristics and individual risks

generate knowledge on data-driven prediction

and personalised preventive treatments

Big Data in health & care

European Innovation Partnership on Active & Healthy Ageing

health & quality of life of European

citizens

growth & expansion

of EU industry

sustainable& efficient

care systems

+2 Healthy Life Years by 2020

A1: Improving prescriptions and adherence to treatment

A2: Better management of health: preventing falls

A3: Preventing functional decline & frailty

B3: Integrated care for chronic conditions

C2: ICT solutions for independent living & active

ageing

D4: Age-friendly cities and environments

Actions Groups

connecting & engaging stakeholders across sectors, from private & public sector

• https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/eipaha/

Contact for the Action Groups: promoters@proeipaha.eu

EIP on AHA

What do we need?

• Infrastructures

Fast broadband everywhere

For every one!

Where is the money?

• Or better: is there any money?

Structural funds

•European Regional Development Fund (EFRD)

•European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD)

•Funds for TO2 "Enhancing access to, and use and quality of, ICT"

•€ 6 bn for Broadband

•Years 2014-2020

Connecting Europe Facility - Telecoms

•The Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) supports trans- European networks and infrastructures in the sectors of transport, telecommunications and energy

•€150 m for broadband

European Fund for Strategic Investments

(EFSI)

•An initiative launched to help overcome the current investment gap in the EU by mobilising private financing for strategic investments

•??? for broadband

Telecom & Need for Speed Open Consultations

• High-quality and high-speed internet access vital to achieve a Digital Single Market

• Review of current EU telecoms rules;

• Europeans' broadband needs.

Views on:

• How EU rules could incentivise network rollout, on spectrum management;

• The role of universal service rules;

• Institutional set up and governance.

• The respondents felt that:

• Competition law principles should continue to underpin the EU's regulation in this field;

• Need for policy adjustment to improve connectivity and advance the internal market.

Telecoms Framework Review

• Sustainable, market-based high-performance BB infrastructures for a vibrant Digital Single Market:

• Networks & access

• Services

• Governance & Tools

The Commission will propose a revised EU telecoms framework in the second part of the year.

The speed is a very subjective thing if you compare it with different benchmark

Need for Speed

• More than 1500 respondents

• Needs in terms of internet speed and quality are not fulfilled;

• Use of internet services and applications to increase dramatically by 2025;

• Policy measures are required to support the development of infrastructure in line with future needs.

ICT Monitoring Tool

• Everything you wanted to know about investing in Broadband (not only) and you dared ask …

• http://s3platform.jrc.ec.europa.eu/ict-monitoring

Broadband Competence Offices

Reporting good practices in expertise/capacity to plan projects;

Coordination and interaction between relevant bodies including relevant Ministries, the NRAs and the regional/local authorities.

Thank You!

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DigitalSingleMarket

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