Romania To Create Telecom Network In 2015 For Unconnected Areas, With EUR84M From EU

Every area of Romania still without Internet coverage will be provided with such services starting in 2015, upon the completion of a telecom network financed by the European Union with EUR84 million, Communication Minister Valerian Vreme said Tuesday.

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In its meeting on Wednesday, the Government will sign a memorandum to put together the team in charge of the project. The financing agreement will be signed in 2012 and all of the 3,600 areas still without Internet access will be connected to the infrastructure in 2015, the minister said.

Romania was allotted EUR84 million for this purpose by the European Union after it adopted, in 2009, the national broadband strategy, whereby the entire the country will have access to broadband Internet services by 2013.

The project's implementation will take 24 months. The Communication Ministry will own the network and will lease it to operators.

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