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O2 Seeking Review of German Radio Spectrum Allocations

Telefonica O2 Germany has issued a statement welcoming the frequency auction planned by the telecoms regulator, the Federal Network Agency for next year but has also demanded fair access to the important frequencies below one gigahertz for all mobile telecommunications providers.  more

Related Tags: o2, telefonica-o2, broadband, gsm1800, bandwidth, radio, Germany


Germany to Require Active SIM Card to Make Emergency Calls

Germany's telecoms regulator, the Federal Network Agency has announced a subtle change to the regulations covering emergency calls made from mobile phones. Under the change, starting on 1 July 2009, emergency calls made from mobile phones in Germany will only be possible with an active SIM card.  more

Related Tags: 112, 911, sim-card, Germany


German Regulator to Discontinue Regulation of Selected Markets

Germany's Federal Network Agency has announced that it plans to discontinue regulation of further telecommunications markets. This was announced in a market definition and analysis published today for comment by the market.  more

Related Tags: eu, termination-rates, mobile-termination-rates, Germany


Germany Plans Technology-Neutral Radio Spectrum Auction

Germany's Federal Network Agency has published in its Official Gazette the award rules for the auction of a further block of radio spectrum. The spectrum has been made available across the country for broadband application, and there are no restrictions on the use of particular technologies (eg UMTS, WIMAX, etc).  more

Related Tags: mts, wimax,, bwa, umts, Germany


German Regulator Lowers Mobile Termination rates by 10%

Germany's Federal Network Agency has approved the new termination rates of the German mobile network operators - which lowers the cost of termination rates by about 10%. The termination rates, which are paid to mobile operators by other network operators for terminating calls in their mobile networks, have now been set at 7.92 cents/minute for the two D networks and 8.8 cents/minute for the two E-networks. The new rates are hence just under 10 per cent and more than 11 per cent lower those hitherto payable to T-Mobile and Vodafone D2 and for E-Plus and O2 respectively, viz. 8.78 and 9.94 cents/minute.  more

Related Tags: european-commission, o2, termination-rates, one-network, e-plus, termination-fees, Germany


German Agency Kicks Off Wimax License Auction With 6 Cos

MUNICH -(Dow Jones)- German federal network agency Bundesnetzagentur Tuesday said all six companies that showed interest in a license for high-speed Internet access via the so-called Wimax technology will get access to the license auction. more

Related Tags: clearwire, wimax-license


Cellphone Bugging Rises

Germany's Federal Network Agency has published the number of authorised phone bugging requests carried out under the Code of Criminal Procedure. According to these statistics German courts last year ordered 35,015 intercepts of telecommunications as well as ordering the renewal of 7,943. These orders affected 34,855 mobile phone numbers and 5,398 fixed line numbers (analogue and ISDN).

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