The Greek EU Presidency must help speed efforts...

The Greek EU Presidency must help speed efforts to create a smarter Europe, said the European Telecommunications Network Operators’ Association Tuesday in an open letter to Infrastructure, Transport and Networks Minister Michalis Chrisochoidis (http://bit.ly/1cjNQVm). Greece will carry out the mid-term review of the digital agenda during its term, which runs until the end of June, and ETNO will work with the presidency to ensure that it sets an ambitious agenda for unleashing investment and innovation on the continental and global levels, it said. In 2017, global Internet Protocol traffic will reach 1.4 zettabytes per year, and ETNO members are the “digital spine of Europe,” it said. The gigabyte equivalent of all movies ever made will cross Western Europe’s backbone IP networks every 21 minutes, it said. That means the future will be more connected and that trend should be embraced, it said. ETNO urged the presidency to carefully plan the review of current e-communication regulations to take stock of the evolving information and communication technologies landscape and the emergence of new services, and to go beyond amending network regulations of the past and consider how to ensure interoperability of so-called Internet Of Everything devices and EU-wide accessibility and portability of content.