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The aim of the report is to promote the sharing of best practices adopted by PPP broadband projects, whether they have been used to provide broadband access nationally, regionally, or in rural areas. The purpose of the document is not to focus on the approach followed by any single PPP broadband project, or to promote any one project, but to provide an overall view of the best practices implemented among all the projects. These best practices have been identified as beneficial for future PPP broadband projects, and which, if followed, should deliver successful outcomes.

In a little over 20 years, the use of the Internet has become ubiquitous. Access to the Internet at increasingly higher connection speeds, is assuming a key role in guaranteeing both economic prosperity as well as social cohesion. The European Commission ("EC") has therefore set out an ambitious programme for increasing the accessibility of Internet provision in Europe under its Next Generation Access ("NGA"), a programme with ambitious roll-out targets that include improving download speeds so that all EU citizens will have Internet access at 30 Megabits per second ("Mbps") by the year 2020 and that 50% of households will have the ability to access the Internet at speeds of 100 Mbps or more. NGA will be key to the development of a European economy that is smart, sustainable and inclusive