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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Today, INTUG released a paper on cloud computing, which talks about IT companies embracing the cloud computing opportunity as a way of providing additional services to their existing and potential customers.
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The International Telecommunications Users Group (INTUG) has appointed Rosemary Sinclair of Australia as its new Chairperson, taking over from Dr. Sergio Antocicco of Italy who passed away suddenly in May.
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On Friday 12 June, the European Commission issued a second draft of the Recommendation on Next Generation Access, following an initial consultation launched in September 2008.
This subject is of supreme importance to business users of telecommunications services, since it will determine if services using next generation fiber access will be available on a competitive basis, or whether the EU will revert to Member State monopolies or duopolies.
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INTUG chairman Sergio Antocicco died in a Rome hospital early Sunday morning of complications following brain surgery he had undergone several days previously.
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Last week, INTUG sent a letter to the EU Council of Ministers gathering in Prague. In the letter, INTUG urged them to resist the protectionist approaches of some incumbent operators with dominant power, who seem to be seeking to limit or eliminate competition for next generation access networks.
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INTUG has identified NGNs as a strategic priority for its members, contacts and for business users globally. As a result, it commissioned a detailed paper by Stratix Consulting to analyze the issues from a business user perspective, recognizing that the focus in regulatory debate until now had been directed towards the telecom operators’ perspectives.
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The International Telecommunications Group (INTUG) welcomed this week’s announcement by the European Commission with further action to reduce the excessive pricing of voice, text and data roaming.
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