Translation of "réseau national de télécommunications météorologiques " (French → English) :

TD will develop and run a national long-distance telecommunications network built along the French national railway network.

Its survey confirmed that railway lines are a form of infrastructure that allows the rapid deployment of a national telecommunications network (as are electricity or gas networks and motorways).

13. Believes that further progress in achieving a more dynamic and integrated Internal Market is needed; calls on Member States to further liberalise services of general interest and network industries where the market share of incumbents remains high and competition is still insufficient: these include postal services, telecommunications, gas and electricity, rail and air transport, and broadcasting; stresses that the universality, high quality, and reasonable pricing of services of general interest need to be guaranteed by the Community institutions at local, regional and national ...[+++] levels; considers that interconnectivity of networks between Member States is particularly important in view of the enlargement of the EU; welcomes the initiative for a Green Paper on services of general economic interest (SGEI) and hopes that the debate will make it possible to formulate and launch a Community strategy for SGEI, which is essential if the Lisbon objectives are to be achieved;

13. Believes that further progress in achieving a more dynamic and integrated Internal Market is needed; calls on Member States to further liberalise services of general interest and network industries, where the market share of incumbents remains high and competition is still insufficient: these include postal services, telecommunications, gas and electricity, rail and air transport, and broadcasting; stresses that the universality, high quality, and reasonable pricing of public services of general interest need to be guaranteed, by the Community institutions at local, regional and national ...[+++] levels; considers that interconnectivity of networks between Member States is particularly important in view of the enlargement of the EU; welcomes the initiative for a Green Paper on services of general economic interest (SGEI) and hopes that the debate will make it possible to formulate and launch a Community strategy for SGEI, which is essential if the Lisbon objectives are to be achieved;

(28) It is considered necessary to ensure the continued application of the existing provisions relating to the minimum set of leased line services in Community telecommunications legislation, in particular in Council Directive 92/44/EEC of 5 June 1992 on the application of open network provision to leased lines(6), until such time as national regulatory authorities determine, in accordance with the market analysis procedures laid down in Directive 2002/21/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 7 March 2002 on a common reg ...[+++]ulatory framework for electronic communications networks and services (Framework Directive)(7), that such provisions are no longer needed because a sufficiently competitive market has developed in their territory.

A nationwide high speed telecommunications backbone is essential to making Canada's competitiveness in the world economy that much more secure.