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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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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Under the framework of the Transatlantic Economic Council (TEC) the EC and the US Government have agreed on ten fundamental principles (PDF) for trade in information and ICT services.
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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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The European Commission this week referred France and Spain to the EU’s Court of Justice because they impose specific charges on the turnover of telecoms operators. The Commission also sent a request for information to Hungary over a new tax imposed on operators. And in the US, politicians called for a 5-year ban on raising taxes on mobile services.
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Today INTUG published its response to the public consultation on numbering for business services, as a contribution to improving the availability of services suitable for a single market for business users throughout the European Union.
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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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Almost 75 per cent of Europeans worry about the cost of using their mobile phone when traveling in the EU according to a survey released by the European Commission.
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