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EU backs initiative to cap mobile roaming fees

Dec 01, 2008 (Datamonitor via COMTEX) -- The governments in the European Union and EU telecom companies have agreed to offer cheaper access to data while reducing costs of sending a text over a mobile phone while traveling...

EU telecoms ministers back watered-down legal reforms

No new laws next year leaves industry in prolonged legal limboPlans to reform Europe's legal landscape for the telecoms industry remain on track, after nearly being derailed at a tense meeting of government ministers on Thursday.

BT faces investigation over secret Phorm trials

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) is investigating claims that BT broke privacy laws for running secret trials of the Phorm ad system, which serves ads based on users’ online surfing habits. BT ran two secret trials of Phorm...

CPS investigates BT over internet trials

The Crown Prosecution Service CPS is investigating claims that BT broke privacy laws by using an internet advertising system with the potential to track and record every website visisted by its customers.

EU nations back plans to limit text message prices abroad

EU telecommunications ministers backed plans Thursday to limit the price of sending text messages by mobile phone while abroad in the European bloc. Opening the way for the change next year, ministers agreed mobile phone...

EU says no to telecom regulatory change

People who read this also read ... BRUSSELS, Nov. 28 (UPI) -- European Union telecommunication ministers have rejected a European Commission proposal to switch to an executive oversight regulatory arrangement. One year ago, the...

Digital divide narrows down in EU

Broadband penetration in the European Union (EU) continues to grow and the gap between best and worst performing countries is narrowing, according to a report published by the European Commission on Friday. Broadband...

EU Telecoms Ministers Back Watered-down Legal Reforms

Plans to reform Europe's legal landscape for the telecoms industry remain on track, after nearly being derailed at a tense meeting of government ministers Thursday. Failure by the 27 telecoms ministers to reach an agreed...

Chronicle -New European Digital Library Proves Too Popular

Click here for the article of The Chronicle of Higher Education, November 26, 2008 Too many people are excited about Europeana, a pan-European digital library, archive, and museum. Last week, when the project’s prototype Web...

EU cracks down on sky-high mobile data prices

Roaming charges face aggressive cap.European telecommunications ministers gave their backing on Thursday to a plan to cap retail prices for sending SMS messages and browsing the Internet using mobile phones while abroad.

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