Activities of Michel REIMON related to 2016/2305(INI)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on internet connectivity for growth, competitiveness and cohesion: European gigabit society and 5G PDF (471 KB) DOC (106 KB)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on internet connectivity for growth, competitiveness and cohesion: European gigabit society and 5G
Amendments (22)
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
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2. Welcomes the ambitious plan to provide ultra-fast internet in primary and secondary schools and libraries by 2025; stresses that faster and better connectivity provides huge opportunities to enhance teaching methods, to foster research and to develop high-quality educational services online; highlights the fact that such opportunities will enhance children’s and students’ digital skills and media literacystresses that roll-out of these technologies creates better opportunities for distance learning, particularly in rural areas and outermost regions; highlights the fact that such opportunities will enhance children’s and students’ digital skills and media literacy; stresses that the adaptation of education and training systems is vital to meet the increasing demand for digitally skilled professionals in the EU; emphasises that, in order to achieve a true digital single market in Europe, further efforts are needed to improve media literacy among citizens in particular children and minors;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
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3 a. Notes that current industry practices prevent cross-border access to works, particularly in the audio-visual sector, thus discriminating, for example, against cultural minorities; emphasises that a harmonised framework for exceptions and limitations is key to facilitate the easier clearing of rights and to foster cross-border accessibility of knowledge and culture and to allow equal access to cultural diversity;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
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3 b. Would therefore welcome a business model which enables a separation of network infrastructure ownership and operation so that the present mobile network operators (MNOs) and internet service providers (ISPs) might not dominate; notes that this could mean that local broadcasters could enter a more prolific market among the Member States as local languages and cultural programming would flourish more easily than under dominance by the traditional players;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
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4. Stresses that 5G has the potential to revolutionise access to, and dissemination of, content and to substantially enhance the user experience, while at the same time allowing the development of new forms of cultural and creative content; emphasises that further deployment of digital infrastructure especially in less densely populated areas promotes social and cultural integration, modern educational and information processes and a regional cultural economy;
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
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5. Emphasises that the audiovisual sector is one of the key drivers for the success of 5G in Europe and that its progress can make a strong and positive impact on the audiovisual media value chain, including content production, distribution and the user environment; calls on the Commission, therefore, to take into account the needs and specificities of this sector, in particular those related to broadcasting; recommends therefore to take these needs and specificities into due account when opening up further spectrum frequencies;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
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6. Highlights the considerable disparities across Member States and between urban and rural areas as regards access to high-speed internet connections; stresses the importance of ensuring that the development of 5G significantly reduces the digital divide among citizens.; stresses in this context the requirement to ensure that in rural communities and less densely populated areas where private investment is unlikely to occur the need for public investment or co-investment models is identified in order to guarantee the necessary standards in respect of quality of connections, diversity of content and the democratisation of access to internet connectivity; emphasises that access to affordable basic services for vulnerable social groups needs to be assured;
Amendment 29 #
Motion for a resolution
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D. whereas the 5G networks rollout will be conducted mainly through commercialprivate investments and will be receptive to an investment-friendly regulatory environmentrequire regulatory certainty to promote investment and competition; whereas the streamlining of administrative conditions, for example for the deployment of small cells for strict and timely spectrum harmonisation and VHC network development, as currently proposed in the European Electronic Communications Code, isre of crucial importance;
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion
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6 a. Welcomes the promotion of a consistent approach to better tailored coverage obligations in spectrum licences in order to stimulate rural connectivity; emphasises that private investment in internet connectivity should not only be incentivised for competitive high-capacity markets in urban areas but also for under-served and less profitable rural deployment areas;
Amendment 56 #
Motion for a resolution
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2. Welcomes the gigabit society targets of attaining network speeds of 100Mbps for all European consumers and, in the long term, of between 1Gbps and 100Gbps for the main socio-economic drivers, such as public sector, education, research, digitally intensive businesses, major transport hubs, financial institutions and schools;
Amendment 67 #
Motion for a resolution
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3. Points out that 5G systems will need to be able to operate over a very wide frequency range: from less than 1GHz up to 100GHz and with a maximum potential of up to 300GHz; notes that frequencies of 3-6GHz and above 10GHz should deliver extreme data rates and extreme capacity in dense areas; Stresses that download speeds alone will not be sufficient to meet the future connectivity demand of the Gigabit Society, future network performance requiring an improvement in terms of available down- and uplink bandwidth, resilience, error-related parameters, latency and its variation;
Amendment 83 #
Motion for a resolution
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6. Notes that sectorall players should benefit from a level playing field and should enjoy the flexibility to design their own networks, choosing their investment model and the most appropriate technology, including fibre-to-the-home (FTTH), Wi-Fi, G.fast, 2G, cable, satellite or any other rapid deve to ensure future-proof networks based on multiple quality parameters such as speed, resilience, latency, jitter and energy efficiency; Recalls that only a regulatory policy aimed at ensuring effective competition triggering the progressive and efficient deplopyment technologies that will help connect all Europeans to VHCby all sector players will enable to fully grasp the benefits of 5G, which could eventually allow full convergence between mobile and fixed networks;.
Amendment 95 #
Motion for a resolution
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7. Believes that 5G is more than an evolution of mobile broadband and that it will be a key enabler of the future digital world as the next generation of ubiquitous ultra-high broadband infrastructure that will support the transformation of processes in all economic sectors (public sector, healthcareeducation, healthcare, research, energy, utilities, manufacturing, transportation, the automotive industry, virtual reality (VR), online gaming and so forth) and provide affordable, agile, elastic and highly personalised services that will improve every citizen’s life;
Amendment 127 #
Motion for a resolution
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9. WelcomNotes the WiFi4EU initiative to promote free internet in local communities by means of an EU-funded scheme and expresses confidence that with the right policy approach such initiatives could become a driver for uptake of digital services and improving citizens life; notes that access speeds are increasing but so is the demand, and that as usage across multiple wireless devices grows, WLAN will need to match end-to-end connectivity demands;
Amendment 135 #
Motion for a resolution
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10. Stresses that the development of 5G technologies is a cornerstone for transforming the ICT network infrastructure towards all-encompassing smart connectivity: smart cars, smart grids, smart cities, smart factories, smart governments and beyond; believes that ultrafast broadband and intelligent, efficient network features that achieve near-instantaneous connectivity between people, human-to-machine and connected machines will come to redefine end user connectivity, which will be enabled by radio access network paradigms such as mesh networks, hybrid networks, dynamic network slicing and softwarisation technologies;
Amendment 141 #
Motion for a resolution
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11. Believes that 5G will enable new affordable and high-quality services, connect new industries and ultimately improve the customer experience for increasingly sophisticated and demanding digital users;
Amendment 166 #
Motion for a resolution
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15. Believes that the best path towards the gigabit society lies in a performance- oriented and technology- inclusiveneutral approach supported by a broad range of investment models such as public- private or co- investments; notes that co- investment in very high capacity networks can, if applied in a manner which promotes the achievement of effective competition, help to pool resources, enable different flexible frameworks and lower deployment costs; and looks forward for a framework that will provide a truly competitive market;
Amendment 180 #
Motion for a resolution
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16. Stresses that commercial investments should be supported by a policy andn infrastructure-oriented policy and a pro- competitive regulatory environment tailored to predictability and the certainty of return on investments, and should not be delayed by overly ambitious public schemes that may impede 5G rollout;
Amendment 194 #
Motion for a resolution
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18 a. Stresses that fact that the generational shift in the deployed networks needs to have as one of the main targets the achievement of higher resources and energy efficiency compared to the previous generation networks;
Amendment 210 #
Motion for a resolution
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22. Highlights that the development of the gigabit society requires fewer and simpler rules, which should be future- oriented, pro-pro-competitive and clearer rules to drive investment, pro-innovation and based on an assessment of market competitionto preserve affordability and end-users' choice; stresses that infrastructure- based competition may offers the potential for less regulation and allows for a fair long- term return on investments but only in in areas where replication of the infrastructure is economically feasible;
Amendment 223 #
Motion for a resolution
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23. Stresses that National Broadband Plans need to be revised carefully, target all 5G areas, maintain a multi-technology approach, support regulatory flexibilicertainty and maximise the scope of competition, innovation and coverage;
Amendment 233 #
Motion for a resolution
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26. Recalls that SMEs would benefit greatly from choice and competitive access to 5G solutions; calls on the Commission to detail its action plans to facilitate SME access to the 5G Participatory Broadband Platform;
Amendment 241 #
Motion for a resolution
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27. Supports the Commission’s proposed plan to set up spectrum harmonisation and long-term licence durations of at least 25 years, which willthe idea of spectrum sharing as a tool to increase the stability and certainty of investments without the lock-in effects; notes that the decisions on these issues should be taken at the same time in all Member States to adopt binding guidance on certain conditions of the assignment process in order to ensure effective competition and best conditions for users;