www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Digital Agenda, part of the Europe 2020 strategy has been presented by the European Commission and increasing access to broadband services, including possible state aid for remote areas, and spectrum harmonization has been projected as important elements for the telecom sector. Willingness for a certain amount of government intervention has already being shown by ICT commissioner Neelies Kroes.

Countries like the Netherlands are already well on the way to meeting the goals and here 50Mbps is already available to around 90 percent of the population. 100 percent Broadband might not be possible but the target does not seem to be too far. One cannot consider the target of universal access to at least 30Mbps by 2020, with at least half of households on 100Mbps as ambitious.

In the statement, by 2015, the international roaming prices should be so low that a Mobile user doesn’t even notice when it crosses a border at least, not from the mobile prices. Artificially high tariffs and subsidizing mobile with fixed networks soon will be things of the past.

While announcing its Q1 results, Dutch telco KPN estimated that Mobile Termination Rate cuts cost the company EUR 55 million in revenues and EUR 20 million in EBITDA. KPN’s market expectations centre on a small revenue decline this year to EUR 13.4 billion from EUR 13.5 billion in 2009. Small increase in 2011 and 2012 to EUR 13.45 billion (both years) has been estimated by the market currently.

But if the national regulators and the EC actions are taken into consideration, it’s highly questionable whether this growth will materialize already in 2011.