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EU’s Digital Agenda Commissioner Neelie Kroes is under intense pressure from member states that are threatening to delay or water down her proposal to abolish cross-border tariffs on mobile phone calls within Europe by 2016.

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INTUG submitted its comments (PDF) to BEREC’s (European Regulators Group for Electronic Communications) draft Work Programme 2012 (PDF) today.

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Last week INTUG wrote to BEREC, the body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications concerning the cross border accessibility of numbers.

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INTUG responded to the BEREC consultation (PDF) on barriers within the EU to provision of communications services for international businesses.

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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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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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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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A user’s internet access cannot be restricted without a prior ruling by the judicial authorities, the Industry Committee of the European Parliament (ITRE) insisted yesterday. The Committee also agreed on setting up a new regulatory body, comprising the heads of all national European telecommunications NRAs.

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