Press Release: Digital Agenda: Annual scoreboard confirms need for structural economic reform across Europe and surplus of ICT jobs; big trend towards mobile services and technology

Europe's citizens, businesses and innovators are generating enough digital demand to put Europe into sustainable economic growth, but failure to supply enough fast internet, online content, research and relevant skills is undermining this potential. Greater data consumption and a shift to mobile technologies (such as smartphones) and mobile services (such as 3G internet, music streaming and webmail) are the most significant trends in the information & communications technologies (ICT) sector, which now accounts for 8 million jobs and 6% of EU GDP.

European Commission: Memo/12/446: Digital Agenda: Telecoms services improving, but regulatory divergences should be addressed to support further innovation http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=MEMO/12/446&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en

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