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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Last week an INTUG delegation met with the EC Commissioner for the Digital Agenda Neelie Kroes for the first time, during which she requested immediate input and regular updates on specific issues relevant to business users of communications services.
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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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The American Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has decided to take a “third approach” to regulating broadband carriers, partially classifying them as “common carriers” under Title 2 of the Communications Act. This would allow the FCC to control the transmission component of broadband Internet, but not rates or content.
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On 19 April the EU ministers responsible for the Information Society policy of the European Union member states and the European Economic Area agreed on the new digital agenda for the next ten years.
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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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