24 May 2011
Tomorrow (25 May) new EU rules to ensure more competition on the telecom market and better services for customers will take effect. Among other things, users should be able to switch operators in one day without losing their existing number and enjoy better protection of their online personal data, according to the European Commission.
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13 May 2011
The European Commission will outline new plans in the coming weeks to bring European roaming rates in line with national tariffs, EU sources told Reuters.
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19 April 2011
The European Commission published a report (PDF) today which underlines the need to ensure that citizens and businesses are easily able to access an open and neutral Internet.
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19 April 2011
Europe’s national regulators are to launch the first pan-European investigation into telecoms companies’ controversial data traffic management practices, in an attempt to safeguard so-called net neutrality principles, the Financial Times reports (registration required).
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2 April 2011
This week chief financial and operating officers from leading telecoms competitors met with the European Commission and major banks to exchange views about the conditions needed to allow investment in ultra-fast fiber networks.
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18 February 2011
European Commission Vice President for the Digital Agenda Neelie Kroes has issued an urgent call to 21 EU countries to rapidly introduce all the legislative measures necessary to allow the pan-EU deployment of mobile satellite services that could be used for high speed internet, mobile television and radio or emergency communications.
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12 November 2010
According to the results of a public consultation launched by the European Commission, there is a near consensus on the importance of preserving the openness of the Internet.
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21 September 2010
Three complementary measures to facilitate the roll out and take up of fast and ultra-fast broadband in the EU have been adopted by the European Commission yesterday.
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