The Broadband Challenge
"We,
the participants of the Broadband Leadership Summit, address this
Challenge to world leaders, top policy-makers, industry leaders,
users and consumers."
The Broadband Challenge endorsed by the Commission in
October 2011 during the
Broadband Leadership Summit
recognizes communication as ‘a human need and a right’, and calls on
governments and private industry to work together to develop the
innovative policy frameworks, business models and financing
arrangements needed to facilitate growth in access to broadband
worldwide.
It urges governments to avoid limiting market entry and taxing ICT
services unnecessarily to enable broadband markets to realize their
full growth potential, and encourages governments to promote
coordinated international standards for interoperability and to
address the availability of adequate radio frequency spectrum. “We
note the importance of the guiding principles of fair competition
for promoting broadband access to all,” it reads. “It is essential
to review legislative and regulatory frameworks, many of which are
inherited from the last century, to ensure the free and unhindered
flow of information in the new virtual, hyper-connected world.”
View the press release