GigaEurope is the new brand for CableEurope, and like other cable-focused bodies like the US-based R&D arm CableLabs, it will extend its remit to cover a broader range of telecoms platforms and services as its members also become more heterogeneous. At its online rebranding event last week, the idea was to have influential policymakers and operators outline a vision for how private-public investments and industry consolidation will spearhead superfast speeds. Technical issues that almost led to the event being abandoned all but hampered those plans, leaving us to pick up crumbs of information about Europe’s potential giga-policies from the remaining time. We see no coincidence that organizers placed members of the European Parliament and European Commission alongside executives from VodafoneZiggo…