TECH - France wants to invest $27B in high speed broadband

France has unveiled a financing plan that would result in the government and private companies spending €20 billion ($27 billion) over the next 10 years bringing high speed broadband and fiber connectivity to the country. The news comes after the EU's budget cut almost all of the $7 billion it planned to spend bringing broadband in Europe. Yet Europe still hopes to have 50 percent of the population at 100 Mbps speeds by 2020 with the rest of t ...

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