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UK Leads Charge Against EU Online Regulation
News The UK's IT and telecoms industry has launched a scathing attack on a proposed new EU directive that would extend TV regulation to online broadcasting. Brussels is proposing major changes to the existing Television without Frontiers directive that...
[April 19, 2006, 8:40]
Beverage Maker Integrates SAP Software Traceability Functions To Meet EU Regulation
White Papers This enables the company to trace all batches and even individual pallets at any time up to customer delivery as required by European Union (EU) regulation 178/2002. At Rivella AG (Rivella), based in Rothrist, Switzerland, SAP software takes on all...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Roaming Charges To Be Cut At Last
News Mobile roaming charges in Europe will drop, starting on 30 June when the new EU Roaming Regulation comes into force. The regulation will run for three years and will cover all 27 EU member states. EU telecom commissioner Viviane Reding said in a...
[June 27, 2007, 8:32]
PBC-Eurotariff
Downloads This application was programmed in compliance with EU regulation for cellular rates paid by EU citizens while roaming abroad within the EU. The new EU Regulation sets limits on international roaming rates.
[March 31, 2008, 22:31]
Mobile-roaming Cuts Hailed Success
News The EU Roaming Regulation came into force in the summer, requiring mobile operators to introduce a cheaper "Eurotariff" for roaming customers. Viviane Reding, the EU telecoms commissioner, said the Eurotariff is now the standard rate for roaming...
[October 8, 2007, 12:14]
European Parliament Set To Approve Roaming Cuts
News I welcome that in today's votes, two further Committees of the European Parliament have supported the main elements of the EU Regulation proposed by the Commission: caps for roaming charges, both at wholesale and at retail level, as well as clear...
[March 22, 2007, 16:11]
EU Calls For 60 Percent Roaming Charges Cut
News I therefore propose that an EU regulation be used to eliminate all unjustified roaming charges". The EU regulation would ensure that operators do not charge operators from other countries substantially more than the actual cost.
[March 28, 2006, 18:10]
UK Drives Plans For United Tech Europe
News This plan would consolidate regulation in communications across the EU and provide a level playing field for competition. During that time the Department of Trade and Industry is adamant it will be a force for change within Europe's IT...
[June 13, 2005, 17:50]
US Firms Fight Euro Data Protection Laws
News The GPA wants several significant changes to be made to EU privacy laws -- the simplification of the cross-border flow of data, possibly through industry self-regulation rather than legislation; the harmonisation of EU privacy regulation between...
[September 30, 2002, 16:29]
Euro Telco Super-regulator Plan Savaged
News The current framework has certainly not created a common regime across EU member states," said Carphone Warehouse's head of telecoms regulation, Rickard Granberg, who complained that the differing pace of regulation and fragmentation of remedies...
[October 20, 2006, 17:00]
Europe Asserts Its Right To Regulate
News Europe's changing role in competition regulation was first recognised about three years ago, when the EU's Competition Bureau disapproved General Electric's proposed merger with Honeywell -- a move that came after US regulators had already signed...
[June 11, 2004, 10:40]
US Firms See Relaxation Of EU Privacy Laws Ahead
News These include the simplification of the cross-border flow of data, possibly through industry self-regulation rather than legislation; the harmonisation of EU privacy regulation between member states; and the relaxation of restrictions on data...
[October 14, 2002, 16:04]
Europe Speeds Up Electronic ID Plans
News However, the latest proposal set out by the European Commission not only intends to speed up the roadmap set out in regulation 334/2002, but is designed to further improve the security of EU passports to aid the detection of individuals using...
[October 23, 2003, 15:40]
Eye2Eye Pt II: Oftel's Edmonds On Broadband
News We pulled the timetable forward quite fundamentally not as a result solely of the EU regulation, but as a result of our own work. The EU regulation is one I greatly welcome and it does say that telephone companies as of January have to have an...
[November 28, 2000, 10:24]
European Software Patents Not Pending
Talkback The problem with government regulation and monitoring is that it usually starts well, but almost always ends with featherbedding useless or inefficient work, and in the end, hurts us all, even those who it set out to help!
[November 19, 2004, 13:15]
GSMA Warns Against Text-roaming Price Caps
News But the GSMA says the cost of sending a text is already coming down — and warned regulation could stifle competition. Earlier this year, Reding warned the industry it had until 1 July to make credible, voluntary price cuts in this area — and to cut...
[July 17, 2008, 9:16]
EC: Cut Data-roaming Costs Or Face Regulation
News The European Commission has threatened to introduce regulation if mobile operators fail to bring down mobile data-roaming costs voluntarily by July this year. But she warned the Commission would consider stepping in with regulation if the mobile...
[February 11, 2008, 13:46]
EC To Cap Text-roaming Costs
News Calls on the industry for self-regulation and voluntary reductions of roaming prices for text messages have not been answered. It is not a good sign for the competitiveness of Europe's mobile industry that it still hasn't got the message that...
[July 15, 2008, 16:09]
UK Tries To Stall Mobile-roaming Controls
News Reding is adamant that the cost of using a mobile phone overseas within the EU is excessive today, and believes that this won't change without retail regulation. In June, she insisted that "the retail regulation will automatically come into force...
[December 12, 2006, 12:49]
EU Consumer Law To Defy Industry Opposition
News It's inevitable the regulation will go through in the same way that the Brussels Convention did," said Robin Bynoe, partner at city law firm Charles Russell. But e-vendors may be making a mountain out of a molehill, as legal experts believe that in...
[May 18, 2001, 17:38]
