Traduction de «Réseau à hiérarchie numérique synchrone à large bande » (Français → Anglais) :

14. Points out that a European market with nearly 500 million people connected to high-speed broadband would act as a spearhead for the development of the internal market; stresses the need to connect the digital agenda with the provision of new services such as e-trade, e-health, e-learning, e-banking and e-government services;

26. Welcomes the Commission’s proposals on the Connecting Europe Facility covering TEN-T, TEN-E and ICT guidelines as this financial instrument will play an important role in developing better connectivity between all component parts of integrated Single Market - transport, energy and broadband networks; stresses the importance of developing comprehensive multimodal EU transport infrastructure network, inter alia, addressing the issues of lack of appropriate infrastructure, accessibility and low interoperability between various parts of the EU; stresses a need to help Member States to meet core energy objectives concerning supply, competitiveness and sustainability; also stresses a need to help Member States to meet the ...[+++]targets set in the ‘Digital Agenda for Europe’ and believes that investment in energy and telecom infrastructure should be market driven with public finance provided only in cases where there is a genuine market failure;

36. Underlines the importance to empower Europeans in the new digital society by ensuring access to a resilient and reliable broadband network as well as by promoting e-skills and users' rights and to give priority to the development of a European Digital Single Market by allowing for free movement of digital services and fully implementing the new legal framework;

16. Notes with satisfaction that the vast majority of schools in the EU currently have network-connected computers designed for teaching purposes; urges the Member States to ensure that all EU educational establishments have access to sufficient broadband connections for the purposes of e-Learning and to take an active part in eliminating the gender divide that exists in IT educational and training systems from the first years of school; stresses in particular the importance of lifelong learning and re-training in a rapidly developing digital technology environment; considers that education should take account of girls" needs in parti ...[+++]cular and be designed to increase their participation;

The Union will also need to pursue its efforts to remove the barriers hindering the development of an Internal Market for telecommunications and to ensure the availability of a secure broadband network infrastructure in all regions, devoting particular attention to the risk of digital divide between urban and remote and rural areas.

Under Directive 92/44/EEC, Member States must ensure that the telecommunications organizations make available certain types of leased lines to all providers of telecommunications services. However, the Directive provides only for such offer of a harmonized set of leased lines up to a certain bandwidth. Companies needing a higher bandwidth to provide services based on new high-speed technologies such as SDH (synchronous digital hierarchy) have complained that the telecommunications organizations concerned are unable to meet their demand whilst it could be met by the optic fibre networks of other potential providers of telecommunications i ...[+++]nfrastructure, in the absence of the current exclusive rights. Consequently, the maintenance of these rights delays the emergence of new advanced telecommunications services and therefore restricts technical progress at the expense of the users contrary to Article 90 (1) of the Treaty, in conjunction with point (b) of the second paragraph of Article 86 of the Treaty.