Was initiated and improved upon in the wake of the economic successes of the American telecommunications market throughout the 1980s and the 1990s (George 1995), and perceived European regression on economic and technological fronts. In seeking to bring the Information Society and the use of information and communications technology (ICT) to Europe, the European Commission has had been instrumental in opening access and improving whatever existing individual initiatives have had been made by other parties previously (Commission of the European Communities, 2006), and its reach can be very In addition to that, provision of structural funds (EU Committee of the Regions, 2006) have also been used as a means to improve that same access to communication networks in backwater regions of Europe that have otherwise been less integrated into the pan-European polity than their more interconnected counterparts, such as Germany and the Scandinavian nations