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Viviane Reding nominated for internet villain award
News Despite her pioneering work, Viviane Reding, the commissioner for information society and media who has led the European charge to reduce extortionate mobile roaming charges, has been landed with a nomination for Internet Villain of the year.
[January 4, 2007, 15:59]
EC lowers cap on voice-roaming prices
News Information society commissioner Viviane Reding announced on Friday that from 30 August the price cap for roaming calls on mobile phones would be reduced from €0.49 (39 pence) to €0.46 per minute (excluding VAT) for making a call, and from €0.24...
[August 29, 2008, 17:17]
Call for law to improve websites for disabled
News European information commissioner Viviane Reding has proposed a pan-European law that would ensure website accessibility for disabled people. Reding said in a speech on Thursday that a potential 'European Disability Act' should ensure European...
[October 2, 2009, 17:24]
ZDNet.co.uk - The Tabloid You Can Trust
Blog Browsing through Viviane Reding's recent speech to the European Regulators Group (as you do), I came across this little nugget: Mind you, I'm trying to think of any actual tabloid newspaper that would give a monkey's about Reding's plans for the...
[October 15, 2007, 12:39]
Reding: Telecoms Package to survive clause row
Blog Europe's telecommunications commissioner, Viviane Reding, has told ZDNet UK that the Telecoms Package, a collection of new laws that many fear will be sunk by a contentious net-neutrality clause, will not all have to go to a conciliation process.
[June 25, 2009, 13:22]
EC will cap mobile-roaming charges
News Commissioner for information society and media, Viviane Reding, has confirmed that telecoms ministers agreed on Thursday at a meeting in Brussels that there must be a cap both on wholesale and retail roaming charges, and more transparency on pricing.
[March 16, 2007, 16:42]
EU calls for 'Mister Cyber Security'
Blog The European Union's telecoms commissioner, Viviane Reding, has called for the creation of a European cyber security chief. Speaking on Monday in her weekly video address, Reding claimed that the 27 EU member states had been "quite negligent" in...
[April 27, 2009, 15:46]
Reding: Help tech firms not help repressive regimes
Blog Viviane Reding, the European commissioner on techie stuff, has given a very interesting speech to a plenary session of the European Parliament, in which she discussed how best to get European companies to avoid helping repressive regimes censor...
[February 5, 2009, 16:00]
EC expects legal issues around Phorm to be resolved
News Legal questions around Phorm are set to be answered, and the ad-serving technology will move to the next stage, European commissioner Viviane Reding has told ZDNet UK. Information society and media commissioner Viviane Reding told ZDNet UK in...
[March 6, 2009, 15:31]
Finding a funder for fibre to the home
News Speaking exclusively to ZDNet.co.uk, Harrington explained why providing a fibre-optic connection to every UK home and business is essential; how Ofcom is finally coming round to supporting the idea, having suffered a "lack of thought leadership...
[May 6, 2008, 16:23]
TV without frontiers, lawmakers in tears
News Viviane Reding has got it wrong. Viviane Reding, Commissioner for Information Society and Media, insists that the new rules will be light, and would encourage economic growth rather than stymying it. The Audiovisual Media Services Directive, as the...
[July 11, 2006, 15:35]
EC: European IT research is too 'fragmented'
News In a speech on Tuesday at the ICT 2008 symposium in Lyon, Viviane Reding pointed out that European spending on IT research and development — both public and private — remains far below that in the US.
[November 27, 2008, 9:33]
EC 'not against' charges for receiving calls
News In an interview with the Financial Times, Viviane Reding of the European Commission said such business models were "for the operators to decide", adding: "Why not [charge for receiving calls]? Reding reinterated her plan to propose caps on the...
[June 17, 2008, 12:44]
EC: Cut data-roaming costs or face regulation
News European commissioner for information society and media Viviane Reding, speaking today at the Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona, said: "What I want to achieve is very simple — that sending a text message or downloading other data via a...
[February 11, 2008, 13:46]
EC launches IT taskforce
News Information society commissioner Viviane Reding said in a statement: "With the ICT Task Force, we want to ensure that Europe's ICT industry keeps its leading role in the world. The European Commission has set up a taskforce designed to make Europe...
[June 8, 2006, 15:20]
Europe defends online broadcasting plans
News But speaking on Wednesday, Viviane Reding, EU Commissioner for Information Society and Media, pledged not to intervene in business. I'm not going to intervene in business — I am technology neutral," Reding added.
[June 15, 2006, 14:45]
EC calls for shorter number-porting times
News Telecommunications and IT commissioner Viviane Reding said in a video address on Monday that it currently takes too long in some European countries to switch operator without changing telephone numbers.
[March 24, 2009, 15:37]
EC calls for energy efficiency through ICT
News The Commission's statement echoes a speech made on Thursday by Viviane Reding, information society and media commissioner, at a Microsoft event in Brussels. We think ICT is the instrument we need to get the energy crisis solved," Reding said on...
[March 13, 2009, 13:47]
European IT chief backs net neutrality
News Viviane Reding was speaking to delegates on Tuesday at an Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) ministerial meeting in South Korea, on the subject of the "future of the internet economy".
[June 18, 2008, 17:23]
EC to develop guidelines on RFID
News Speaking at the CeBIT trade event in Hanover, Germany, on Thursday, information society commissioner Viviane Reding said the Commission would draft rules later this year to amend EU e-privacy legislation to take account of RFID.
[March 16, 2007, 14:40]
