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Telcos still hope to avoid European roaming regulations
(09 Mar 2007)
Europe's mobile phone operators still hope to dissuade lawmakers from passing legislation capping the price for using a mobile phone abroad, even though politicians appear set on introducing the limits. ...
Ottawa proposes greater deregulation of local phone services
(12 Dec 2006)
In a proposal likely to please Canada’s big telecom companies, federal government has announced it wants to speed up deregulation of local phone services by basing it on "presence of competitive infrastructure" in a specific geography rather than market share....
ITU meeting in Turkey will tackle key Internet issues
(03 Nov 2006)
Government officials will meet in Turkey for the next three weeks to discuss the future of the Internet and take action on key issues such as cybercrime and Internet oversight. ...
Although the U.S. Congress adjourned on Saturday without acting on legislation to ban pretexting in the wake of the scandal involving Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP), California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a bill last Friday that forbids the practice in the state. ...
The creation of a pan-European telecoms regulator has found significant industry support for the idea, though most remain against the notion overall. ...
Palm stops shipment as Treo fails European pollution law
(05 Jul 2006)
Palm Inc. has stopped shipping its latest smart phone to Europe because the devices don't comply with new European Union regulations that limit the acceptable amount of hazardous substances in electronics goods....
Nortel Corp. has announced an agreement with Canadian plaintiffs in a class action law suit that paves the way for implementing an earlier settlement the company reached in the U.S. ...
Net neutrality proponents vow to press fight in Senate
(12 Jun 2006)
After the U.S. House of Representatives approved a controversial telecommunications bill Thursday and rejected an amendment that sought to keep large telephone or cable TV companies from controlling access to the Internet, supporters of that "net neutrality" amendment vowed to fight on. ...
The U.S. House of Representatives has defeated a provision to require U.S. broadband providers to offer the same speed of service to competitors that's available to partners, a major defeat to a coalition of online companies and consumer groups....
A European Union proposal to regulate Internet TV and other new media services has created an uproar among Internet and telecommunications companies, which banded together and released on Tuesday a paper detailing their complaints. ...
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