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The new Spanish EU Presidency wants to extend universal service requirements to broadband Internet, making it mandatory for member states to make the service available in every corner of their territory.

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New EU telecoms rules officially became law last week. They are composed of the Better Regulation Directive and the Citizens’ Rights Directive and will need to be transposed into national laws of the 27 EU Member States by June 2011. The new regulation also means that the new European telecoms regulator BEREC will be operational in a few weeks.

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An Update on Global Communications Issues

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The Canadian government overruled its regulator CRTC Friday and declared start-up wireless carrier Globalive, financed largely by an Egyptian company, to be Canadian. The company can now start offering service in Canada.

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The European Court of Justice on Thursday overruled an attempt by the Bundesnetzagentur, the German NRA, to allow incumbent operator Deutsche Telekom to ban competitors from having access to its high-speed broadband network.

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Yesterday, European president José Manuel Barroso unveiled his new team for the next four years. ICT and Telecoms – the so-called Digital Agenda – will be in the hands of current Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes.

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How to benefit from cloud computing without putting sensitive data at risk? The European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) published a 123 page report on the subject and found that Cloud Computing actually can enhance data security.

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