The Europe-wide Broadband Award honours the five best Next-Generation Networks (NGN) projects delivering at least 30Mbps in urban, suburban and rural areas.
The so-called Digital
Agenda target for 2020 is 30Mbps to every single European household and 50 per cent household penetration of 100Mbps services.
But despite the nominations being open since June, only 22 projects have been put forward from six countries.
We expect more applications to be submitted this week as we are getting close to the deadline, said an official.