BRUSSELS, Belgium-The European Commission said this week that its member states must improve their research and development contributions for “mobile broadband services” to maintain their place in the global wireless industry.
The EC said the share of gross domestic product that Europe spends on R&D lags well behind that of its main trading partners.
“The challenges ahead include ensuring that services can be supplied seamlessly to a variety of devices, making the technologies and networks that carry them interoperable, and providing adequate intellectual property protection for services with high value-added content,” said the EC. “These challenges call for targeted R&D, both on basic research and to accelerate technical innovation.”
