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"Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to start by offering my sincere thanks to the rapporteur, who also so successfully put across Parliament’s position in the negotiations with the Council. ‘Spectrum Gunnar’, you have my thanks!
More and more European citizens make use of mobile Internet services, and the trend is upwards. I have a couple more figures to highlight this. In 2010 alone, average monthly smartphone usage doubled to 79 MB from 35 MB the previous year. Similarly, in 2010 3 million new tablets – such as the iPad – were newly connected to the mobile network. In future, too, even greater data traffic is anticipated. Experts predict that mobile data traffic will increase by a factor of 26 between 2010 and 2015, and in 2015 some 788 million people will use the Internet exclusively from mobile devices.
Against this backdrop, the first European radio spectrum policy programme, which we will be deciding on tomorrow, therefore has a particular role to play. Our goal is clear – more frequencies need to be made available for wireless broadband networks in future than has been the case so far. The flood of data was threatening to block up the transmission capacities that we have hitherto had available. More frequencies will mean that we can continue to use our mobile Internet services without interruption in future. If we adopt the radio spectrum policy programme tomorrow with a broad majority, we will have done something positive for our citizens in Europe.
As you all know, I am currently also fighting on another front, as rapporteur for the new Roaming Regulation, to bring about better conditions for mobile Internet use. I believe that surfing the net when abroad must become much cheaper. Commissioner, you have already brought forward a bold proposal in this regard. We also aim to be somewhat bolder in Parliament, as we want to achieve something for our European consumers. If the Roaming Dossier – as is my hope – can be wrapped up in the first half of this year I would be very pleased if I earned the nickname ‘Roaming Angelika’."@en1
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