In March 2010 the European Commission adopted "Europe 2020", a strategy for European economic and social development to promote smart, sustainable and inclusive growth to stimulate a high-employment economy to deliver social and territorial cohesion throughout the Member States. A key part of...

The study in subject collects data on the actual speed of fixed broadband lines and compares the results with the speeds advertised by ISPs in their commercials and web pages. For the purposes of this study 9,467 households across the European Union were given a specially configured hardware...

Several studies have shown that the effective speed of fixed broadband connections is typically less than the headline or advertised speed. In 2012 the Commission launched a study to obtain reliable and accurate statistics of broadband performance across the different EU Member States....