E TENS
November 1st, 2003
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE EUROPEAN Parliament has approved a European Commission plan to increase the amount of European Union (EU) funding for cross-border telecommunications infrastructure installation via its e-TEN (trans-European networks) programme. MEPs backed boosting the maximum proportion of a project's deployment costs that can be sourced from e-TENs budgets from 10 to 30 per cent. At present, Euro 158 million has been earmarked for e-TENs spending for 2003-6. A parliament communiqué said: "Experience from both the eTEN programme and from the (previous) ...
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