2 November 2011
Last week a comprehensive European radio policy paving the way for improvements to wireless services has been agreed upon. The agreement will foster the roll-out of high speed wireless broadband systems, vital to Europe’s digital single market.
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26 October 2011
Yesterday the ITU released a report at its yearly Telecom World event. The facts and figures speak for themselves:
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19 October 2011
The European Commission is planning to invest over EUR9 billion from 2014 to 2020 on pan-European projects to give citizens and businesses access to high-speed broadband networks, according to a proposal revealed today.
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7 October 2011
Yesterday the US telecommunications regulator outlined a plan to transform the Universal Service Fund, an USD8 billion fund that is paid for by US telephone customers and used to subsidize basic telephone service in rural areas, into one that will help expand broadband Internet service to 18 million Americans who lack high-speed access.
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4 October 2011
Yesterday the European Commission launched a consultation on non-discriminatory access to dominant operator network services and another on cost methodologies for the provision of wholesale services.
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28 September 2011
The European Commission is determining whether to require the unbundling of Skype from Microsoft’s Windows operating system before authorizing the planned merger of the two companies, Euractiv reports.
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26 September 2011
INTUG OPINION
Last week INTUG wrote to BEREC, the body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications concerning the cross border accessibility of numbers.
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23 September 2011
According to a report (PDF) from Berg Insight, HSPA/LTE accounted for more than 20 percent of the total number of broadband connections in Europe at the end of 2010, compared to 13 percent in North America.
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