The European Union should set rules forcing member states to allow cable television networks to use their infrastructure to provide telephone services, Competition Commissioner Karel Van Miert said: according to Reuter, he pointed out that the UK is the only country that currently allows it, and that the move had brought a dramatic increase in the interest of investors in British cable systems; he also said telecommunications users in Europe were severely disadvantaged by the excessive charges that they face, the rates for a three-mile link being on average five times higher in Europe than the US.
