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Ofcom moves towards global roaming caps

Ofcom moves towards global roaming caps

...supporting the proposals of the Body of European Regulators of Electronic Communications (BEREC) to lower wholesale roaming costs to below 5 euro cents per MB... Read more

2 March, 2012 by Ben Woods

Kroes attacks Dutch net-neutrality rules

...direction of internet access. In April, the Commission asked the regulator group Berec to carry out a fact-finding exercise, in which it would log... Read more

3 October, 2011 by David Meyer

Shorter broadband terms arrive as EU laws kick off

...measures and sets up a pan-European regulatory body for telecoms, called Berec. As part of its adoption of the package, Ofcom said that from... Read more

26 May, 2011 by Karen Friar

Net neutrality to get close scrutiny in Europe

...exercise — to be carried out across the EU by the regulatory group Berec — will log known cases where service providers are blocking and throttling internet... Read more

19 April, 2011 by David Meyer

MEPs back cheaper European data-roaming rates

...maximum for outbound calls it had pushed for, based on research by Berec."We welcome the newest decision by the European Parliament, even though they... Read more

28 February, 2012 by Jack Clark

Vodafone: Stop making us cut our prices

...s proposals. A letter sent on Friday from the European regulatory body BEREC to a European Parliament committee — and leaked this week — showed that the... Read more

28 February, 2012

Three: EU data price caps need to be lower

The mobile operator and others are urging minister Ed Vaizey to press for lower wholesale caps for data roaming, saying that proposed EU legislation would still lead to 'prohibitively expensive' charges Read more

21 February, 2012 by Ben Woods

Net neutrality gets European Parliament backing

...finding expedition with regards to net neutrality, having tasked the regulator group Berec with finding out what abuses of net neutrality are taking place. Evidence... Read more

18 November, 2011

Net neutrality heads for European Parliament vote

...in 'wait-and-see' mode on the issue, having asked regulatory body Berec in April to find out whether examples of anti-net neutrality abuses... Read more

21 October, 2011 by David Meyer
Data-roaming price cuts: Europe's options

Data-roaming price cuts: Europe's options

...suggests the structural route. Retail capsChris Fonteijn, chair of European regulator group Berec, would prefer retail caps. He cited problems with the structural approach, including... Read more

13 April, 2011 by David Meyer

Operators to provide data-roaming price 'index'

...expressed displeasure with the European Commission's use of figures compiled by Berec — the EU regulators' group — that derive from the second half of 2010... Read more

12 April, 2011

European net neutrality survey reveals 'near consensus'

...over another". Responding to the consultation, the body of EU telecoms regulators, Berec, warned that traffic discrimination could have anti-competitive effects and a negative... Read more

9 November, 2010

Europe sets out fast broadband rules

...telecoms national regulators and the Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (Berec), and two public consultations in 2008 and 2009 that elicited 170 submissions... Read more

21 September, 2010 by David Meyer

EU telecoms super-regulator starts work

...communications, has begun work. The Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (Berec), created last year in the Telecoms Reform package, met on Thursday to... Read more

29 January, 2010 by David Meyer

European telecoms reform clears final hurdle

...to another, and the creation of a pan-European telecoms body called Berec. The internet freedom provision, which insists that any disconnection of an internet... Read more

24 November, 2009 by David Meyer

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