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European 3G Mobile Industry Self-Regulation: IAPCODE Background Paper
White Papers This is a background paper laying out the main issues related to self-regulation of 3G mobile content and services. It is informed by research done under the IAPCODE selfregulation.info project, funded by the European Commission under the Safer...
[March 23, 2005, 2:00]
European Regulation Fails To Solve Broadband Problem
News According to a Yankee group survey, European businesses are paying 150 times more for local leased line broadband connections than they do for international lines and 150 times what their US counterparts pay.
[May 3, 2001, 11:30]
European Telecoms Regulation May Ban Spam
News It is a move welcomed by Euro ISPA (European Internet Service Providers' Association) which has long campaigned for legislation on the issue. Laurence Djolakian -- speaking on behalf of the Federation of European direct marketers -- believes a...
[May 11, 2000, 17:09]
BT Calls For Euro-wide Telecoms Regulations
News BT has released research that claims huge benefits to the European economy if telecoms regulation was harmonised across the continent, allowing more consistent IT contracts and services for multinational companies.
[April 7, 2008, 13:18]
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 Threatens Operators Over Data Roaming
News Mobile operators have been given just a few weeks to lower their data-roaming tariffs, after the European Commission threatened them with further regulation. According to the source, this group is also steering towards heavier regulation on the...
[February 2, 2007, 15:11]
Privacy Groups Take Efforts To European Level
News The move comes as concerns grow over erosion of data privacy by the UK's Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act and by European Union regulations. The need for cooperation among European organisations is increasing as more regulation for the...
[June 13, 2002, 16:10]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog One of the intriguing aspects of the mobile-roaming rip-off is the way it has exposed a fundamental flaw in regulation. Radio regulation remains one of the last bastions of restraint of trade thinking, and it's hurting.
[October 20, 2006, 19:20]
TV Without Frontiers, Lawmakers In Tears
News The European Internet Service Providers Association (EuroISPA) wants self regulation of the Internet, arguing that "regulated self regulation" — where players are left to regulate themselves until something goes wrong — will be abused as some...
[July 11, 2006, 15:35]
Mobile Operators Angered By Latest Roaming Proposals
News European mobile operators have nothing to fear from impending roaming tariff regulation if they remain competitive, a spokesperson for the European Commission has said. If the European Commission approves Commissioner Reding's proposals in July...
[June 13, 2006, 16:40]
France Telecom Threatens EC Over Roaming Clampdown
News France Telecom has warned that it might stop buying equipment from European manufacturers unless the EC's proposals on mobile roaming regulation are toned down. Martin Selmayr, spokesman for Commissioner Reding, responded to Lombard's claims on...
[December 19, 2006, 16:01]
Blair Called To Stick To Telecoms Commitment
News At a heads of state conference in Portugal in March the prime minister signed up to an European Commission regulation calling on incumbent telcos across Europe to open their networks to competitors by the beginning of 2001.
[October 18, 2000, 12:03]
EU Telecoms Gets Regulatory Shake-up
News At the heart of the proposals, which represent the biggest change in telecoms regulation for five years, is the Commission's desire to see the European telecoms market made into a more level playing field.
[November 14, 2007, 13:24]
The Lithuanian Free Market Institute: A Position On Employment Regulations And The Lisbon Strategy
White Papers The so-called European social model, and employment regulation as an integral part of this model, is one of the most perplexing aspects. The Lithuanian Free Market Institute (LFMI) has made an analysis of the European Union's Lisbon agenda and its...
[June 22, 2005, 3:00]
Regulators Won't Act Over Retail Roaming Charges
News European Commissioner Viviane Reding recently announced plans to impose regulation on the amount that mobile network operators can charge customers for using phone abroad. This was closely followed by an announcement from the ERG that it "agreed...
[May 12, 2006, 16:55]
Europe Speeds Up Electronic ID Plans
News The original proposals for improving passport security were submitted in September 2001 and adopted by the European Parliament in regulation 334/2002, five months later. However, the latest proposal set out by the European Commission not only...
[October 23, 2003, 15:40]
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]
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]
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]
Talk As Long As You Like, But Carry A Big Stick
Leader It should now be extended to mobile operators who, like T-Mobile, claim that slashing mobile charges a hairsbreadth ahead of European regulation on the issue, proves that no regulation is necessary. The European Commission has discovered just how...
[October 19, 2006, 15:00]
