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Articles tagged with: Viviane Reding
High Prices and Lack of Transparency Cause Anxiety for Data Roaming Users
Use of mobile data services within European countries is growing much faster than cross border data roaming services, concludes a study carried out for the European Commission. The report says that this is because mobile operators are introducing aggressive retail rates to compete with existing broadband offers. more
Related Tags: mobile-data, european-commission, roaming, eu, compete, text-messages, laptop
UPDATE: EU Calls For 70% Cut in Mobile Call Handling Fees
BRUSSELS -(Dow Jones)- European mobile operators face a 70% cut in the fees they charge each other for passing on calls from competing networks under draft guidelines published by the European Commission Thursday that led to sharp criticism from the industry. more
Related Tags: deutsche-telekom, t-mobile, prepay, european-commission, roaming, 3-uk, gsm-association, termination-rates, sharp, hutchison, andrew, termination-fees
Europeans May Have to Pay to Receive Phone Calls
Europeans could end up having to pay to receive phones under a proposal from EU telecoms commissioner, Viviane Reding who said that she was open to the concept in exchange for lower termination rates. In an interview with the Financial Times, she said " The whole market is developing, so we should not stay on the rules that have been in place 10 years" more
Related Tags: roaming, eu, termination-rates, mobile-termination-rate, mobile-termination-rates
EU Calls for Mass Migration to IPv6 by 2010
The European Commission has set a target of getting at least a quarter of EU industry, public authorities and households to switch to IPv6 internet addressing by 2010. A recent report from the OECD had warned that the shortage of older IPv4 internet addressing threatened the rise of mobile internet services. more
Related Tags: european-commission, eu, mobile-internet, 3g-americas, oecd
Arab Regulators Call for Lower International Roaming Rates
A meeting of the Arab Regulators Network (AREGNET) has adopted a recommendation to pressure the mobile operators to lower their international roaming rates - much in the way the EU's Viviane Reding has pushed for within Europe. The group of regulators has decided to present its recommendations to the Council of Arab Ministers of Telecommunications and Information Technology at its meeting in June. more
Bad News for European Super-Regulator Plans
Plan's by the EU's telecoms commissioner, Viviane Reding to create a super regulator for Europe seems to have been dealt a blow after a paper crisiting the proposal was drafted by Pilar del Castillo, a Spanish conservative MEP. more
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EU Nations to Push DVB-H Over Other Mobile TV Standards
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Related Tags: mobile-tv, qualcomm, o2, rcom, edge, samsung, european-union, dvb-h, mediaflo
EU Sets July Deadline for Data Roaming Cuts
BARCELONA -(Dow Jones)- European mobile phone operators must cut how much they charge customers for sending texts or downloading data while traveling abroad by July 1 or incur regulation, the European Union's telecommunications commissioner warned Monday. more
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Nokia's Mobile TV Technology gets Semiofficial Status in EU
BRUSSELS -(Dow Jones)- The European Commission Thursday suffered a setback in its attempts to advance Nokia Corp.'s DVB-H technology for mobile television as the single standard in Europe, after the member states' ministers concluded that it should not be a mandatory standard. more
Related Tags: mobile-tv, european-commission, qualcomm, interoperability, dvb-h
EU Takes Action Against Bulgaria Over Poor Telecom Regulation
BRUSSELS -(Dow Jones)- The European Commission Wednesday launched legal action against Bulgaria, saying it has failed to ensure the independence of its telecommunications regulator. more
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