The European Commission’s Digital Agenda Action Plan aims to to give every European citizen access to basic broadband by 2013, enabling Europe to boost job creation, promote economic prosperity and improve the daily lives of citizens and businesses.

'Every European Digital': The Challenge of Bridging the Broadband Gap will look at the path from now to 2013, take stock of the obstacles standing in the way of achieving 100% coverage, explore the role that new broadband infrastructure can play and consider how broadband for all can be funded.

The conference will take place on 31 May 2011 in Brussels.

Helios Director Richard Womersley will be speaking at 11:30 during Session 2 "Achieving Broadband For All by 2013". His presentation is entitled "Can spectrum provide the answer?".

For more information, visit the event website.

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