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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Yesterday the European Commission has urged 16 member states to fully implement the new EU telecoms rules into national law.
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The European Commission is planning to invest over EUR9 billion from 2014 to 2020 on pan-European projects to give citizens and businesses access to high-speed broadband networks, according to a proposal revealed today.
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According to a report (PDF) from Berg Insight, HSPA/LTE accounted for more than 20 percent of the total number of broadband connections in Europe at the end of 2010, compared to 13 percent in North America.
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Yesterday INTUG responded to the European Commission’s Consultation on Cloud Computing, focusing on cross border issues.
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The European Commission has sent requests for information to 20 member states which have not yet notified measures to implement in full new EU telecoms rules into national law. The deadline for implementing the new rules was 25 May 2011.
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Today the European Commission proposed an EU wide cap on mobile data roaming fees of 90 euro cents starting July 1, 2012. The cap would fall to 70 euro cents a year later, and to 50 euro cents by July 1, 2014. Currently one megabyte of data averages EUR2.23 (USD3.22).
Nick White, Executive Vice President of INTUG said,
“The latest retail price cap proposals demonstrate acceptance by politicians and regulators that roaming charges are an unjustified imposition on consumers and a stealth tax on cross-border trade which relies increasingly on mobile data communications. However, they still do not go far enough in eliminating this particular symptom of market failure.”
Read more in the NY Times.
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Regulators and policy makers should boost competition among mobile telephone operators to cut the high prices being charged for international data roaming, according to a new OECD report.
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