The Canadian regulatory authority CRTC is ordering big network operators like Bell and Telus to offer smaller wholesale companies higher internet speeds in a move to strengthen competition and accomplish reasonable pricing levels for broadband services.
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Last week U.S. President Obama announced investment in 66 new broadband projects, many of which fill in fiber “middle mile” gaps in rural communities.
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Just two days before the roaming rates in the EU were lowered, the EC published an interim report on roaming charges in the European Union. Not surprisingly, retail prices tend to cluster around the regulated maximum price caps.
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Yesterday the European Commission launched a public consultation on key questions concerning net neutrality. The consultation will feed into a report on the subject, to be presented by the end of this year.
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In a bid to ensure universal access to affordable, high-quality broadband services, promote an innovative and competitive market and empower consumers, the US Federal Communications Commission opened a public inquiry about the regulation of Internet access.
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Four British mobile operators lost their bid to overturn a cap imposed by the European Commission on the roaming fees they can charge customers when traveling abroad.
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Telecoms users and the EU economy as a whole are denied the full economic benefits of a truly single and competitive EU-wide telecoms market because of inconsistent application of EU telecoms rules, according to an annual report on the Single European Electronic Communications Market.
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ITU presented a new report yesterday at the World Telecommunication Development Conference in Hyderabad and called for broadband Internet access for half the world’s population by 2015. The Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation (CTO) stressed the need to utilize ICT’s in a way that enhances development.
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