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Vi kanske kan enas om roamingen, pirat Hökmark!
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Moderaternas EU-parlamentariker Gunnar Hökmark svarar på mitt och Amelia Andersdotters debattinlägg om roamingpriserna i en slutreplik på SvD Opinion. Vi är bägge överens om att dagens situation med hutlösa priser på dataroaming är ohållba...
“the top of judgment”* 2012: This year’s top telecoms and broadcasting cases at the ECJ
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Carrying on what has become some sort of a tradition (2009, 2010, 2011), I shall again take a look at pending cases in the field of telecommunications and broadcasting at the Court of Justice of the European Union (and the General Court) which we can...
Är Hökmark (M) uppriktig om priset för datatrafik?
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Moderaternas ledamot i Europaparlamentets industriutskott, Gunnar Hökmark, presenterade på onsdagen ett förslag om data-roaming (mobil dataupkoppling när man är utomlands) på Brännpunkt. Men är han verkligen uppriktig när han säger att hans...
End user perspective: BEREC Guidelines on Transparency in the scope of Net Neutrality
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The previous blog post referred to the scope and structure of the transparency guidelines approved for publication by the Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (BEREC): BEREC Guidelines on Transparency in the scope of Net Neutral...
Scope and structure: BEREC Guidelines on Transparency in the scope of Net Neutrality
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The Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (BEREC) approved the transparency guidelines for publication: BEREC Guidelines on Transparency in the scope of Net Neutrality: Best practices and recommended approaches BoR (11) 67 (Decem...
EESC on open internet and net neutrality in EU
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On 26 October 2011 the advisory body, the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC), adopted an opinion on the communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the R...
BEREC consultation on draft Guidelines on Net Neutrality and Transparency
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At the political level the European Parliament, the EU Council and the Commission (Digital Agenda, Digital Single Market) have all been active on net neutrality issues recently. Closer to the ”factory floor”, the Body of European Regulators for E...
eCommunications: BEREC Work Programme 2012
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The blog post What is the EU doing for growth and jobs? presented the main economic reform programmes in the European Union. The entry Electronic communications in EU: BEREC blog posts focused on one part of the ongoing work on the Digital Agenda and...
Report on the consultation of the BEREC draft Work Programme 2012
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BEREC, the Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications, is an important cog in the machinery to deliver on the Digital Agenda for Europe. BEREC enhances cooperation among national regulatory authorities (NRAs) and strengthens the intern...
BEREC draft Work Programme 2012 consultation procedure
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After the public consultation from 6 October to 4 November 2011, including an oral hearing 21 October, BEREC published a report on the public consultation. The fifteen stakeholder contributions are available in full on the BEREC page for public consu...
EU electronic communications: BEREC Work Programme 2012
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After the brief presentation of the Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (BEREC), we looked at the ongoing public consultation on the draft BEREC medium term strategy outlook. Relating to the Digital Agenda for Europe, in this bl...
EU electronic communications: BEREC medium term strategy consultation
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In the introduction to the Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (BEREC), I mentioned that BEREC has announced a public consultation, which runs until 16 January 2012. Board of Regulators The latest meeting of the Board of Regula...
Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (BEREC)
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One part of the new EU regulatory framework for electronic communications, the telecoms package approved in 2009, was the establishment of BEREC. The BEREC Regulation 1211/2009, published two years ago, is available in 23 official EU languages; the E...
Telecomunicazioni: prossimamente la gara per la terza licenza 3G in Albania
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In tutti e due le precedenti gare, il prezzo iniziale stabilito dalle autorità del settore è stato di 12,5 milioni di euro. La gara questo volta sarà tra Eagle Mobile e la società Plus.
European Parliament versus SOPA and Protect IP Act
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If passed, the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) bill debated in the US House of Representatives and its sister, the Protect IP Act (Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act of 2011) discu...
EU telecommunications: Public consultation on net neutrality (2010)
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From the Digital Agenda for Europe communication 26.8.2010 COM(2010) 245 final/2, our next step regarding the open and neutral nature of the internet takes us to the public consultation. Public consultation The Commission launched the promised public...
EU Digital Agenda: Open internet and net neutrality background
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I mentioned the EU TTE Council (transport, telecommunications and energy) 12 and 13 December 2011 on my blogs in Finnish, Swedish (here and here) and English. The TTE Council adopted conclusions which on five pages establish the open internet and net...
Open internet and net neutrality in EU
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The TTE Council of the European Union met to deal with transport and telecommunications issues: 3134th Council meeting Transport, Telecommunications and Energy; Brussels, 12 and 13 December 2011 (document 18416/11; 27 pages) The general TTE conclusi...
ACP-CTO roundtable stresses broadband’s crucial role in development
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Heads of ICT regulators in the ACP region emphasized the importance of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT’s) as a driving force behind development, and called for increased broadband penetration in African, Caribbean and Pacific cou...
EU Digital Agenda: broadband trends
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Yesterday we looked at some basic economic facts and market trends in the European ICT sector, available at the time the Digital Agenda was launched. We return to the Commission staff working document SEC(2010) 630 final/2, which accompanied the 15th...
Freeing up mobile broadband spectrum crucial for growth, competitiveness and innovation
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This week the International Chamber of Commerce in Paris is urging governments to take immediate action on the ever-increasing need for more spectrum for mobile broadband. I’m chair of their task force on Telecoms and Infrastructure services that
EU electronic communications market(s) at Digital Agenda start
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I returned to the sources of the EU strategies for economic growth and the knowledge society in a number of blog posts published between 14 and 20 October 2011 (FI SV EN). Links are provided in the entry EU2020 and Digital Agenda roundup: innovative...
Comment on The cheapest way to get an iPhone 4S in the UK by Robert
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I agree with you Clegg, when you have to pay £1000+ for a contract phone, insurance is good idea, but the website you mention is hardly comprehensive. I am surprised they don't include phoneguard.co.uk. No affiliate here, and I am not posting link:)...
Italiensk EU-parlamentariker vill registrera allt på internet
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Europaportalen skriver: EU-parlamentarikern Tiziano Motti vill att allt du gör på nätet loggas och sparas – för barnens skull. En slags svart låda ska installeras i alla världens datorer, smartphones och läsplattor. Tanken är också att sys...
The cheapest way to get an iPhone 4S in the UK
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What’s the cheapest way to get an iPhone 4S legitimately in the UK? That’s the conundrum that’s been confronting me for the past few days. I’ve been on a £30/month contract with O2 for my old iPhone 3G, but I’m …...
EU Digital Agenda challenges revisited
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The first part of the Digital Agenda retrospective appeared here. Industry views on the coming European Digital Agenda and an own-initiative report in the European Parliament preceded the publication of the communication from the Commission 19 May 2...
EU Digital Single Market in Europe 2020 strategy
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Ensuring the free movement of goods, persons, services and capital is an ongoing work in Europe, since the launch of the common market by the 1957 EEC Treaty. Professor Mario Monti assessed the need for progress in his report to Commission president...
Blogging about EU radio spectrum, broadband deployment and Digital Agenda
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Here is a round-up of my blog posts to date about EU radio spectrum policies, broadband deployment and the Digital Agenda for Europe, including the first entries concerning IT policies in Sweden, one of the most competitive information societies. Th...
EU radio spectrum impact assessment
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In line with EU regulation policies and for the benefit of the national governments, parliaments and the public, as well as the European Parliament, the Commission proposal to establish the first radio spectrum programme (RSPP) for the European Union...
EU Commission: Radio spectrum policy programme (RSPP) proposal
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In September 2010 the Commission proposed the first Radio Spectrum Policy Programme (RSPP) for the European Union. The RSPP proposal is available in 22 official EU languages.The English pdf version of the proposed radio spectrum decision, based on Ar...
Online tracking infringing e-privacy? Duh!
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Following my earlier post on digital piracy, let's stay within the digital environment and talk some more about digital privacy. The European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) revealed today in a press release that the Data Retention Directive does n...
New EU telecoms rules in force (Digital Agenda)
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The Digital Agenda spearheads the Europe 2020 growth strategy (EU2020) and efforts to achieve a genuine Single Market. One stage was reached 25 May 2011, when new telecoms rules entered into force in the European Union. The Commission offers a brief...
Meeting with German Parliamentarians in Berlin
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Diana recently visited the German Parliament (Deutsche Bundestag) to speak to members of the Committee on Legal Affairs. She spoke, partly in German, about the proposed Contract Law and also touched on Data Retention and Internet blocking. La...
Is the EU getting too excited over the common phone charger?
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Within a year almost any type of data-enabled mobile phone you buy, anywhere in the world, is going to come with one common mobile phone charger – thanks to the EU. This week the 14 main mobile phone companies signed a binding agreement to all use...
New European Commission proposal on the use of PNR data in the fight against terrorism
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The proposal aims to harmonise Member States’ provisions on obligations for air carriers, operating flights between a third country and the territory of at least one Member State, to transmit PNR data to the competent authorities for the purpose of...
Does Telecom Data Fight Crime?
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AK Vorrat, a German NGO that defends civil liberties, released a report arguing that while the EU's data retention law might not be hurting, it certainly wasn’t helping. Crime in Germany went up after the law was implemented.
An unusually quiet day in Brussels, explained
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If you’re wondering why Monday afternoon felt unusually quiet in Brussels, you can thank Belgacom, the Belgian telecoms group which provides the phone lines to the European institutions. For five hours starting at lunchtime, all lines at the Europe...
One mobile phone charger for the EU – the devil’s in the… adaptor
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We’ve all been there – every time we’ve bought a mobile phone it comes with a lumpen black charger, and you can bet the plug on the end of the cable will be different for just about every mobile phone you’ve ever bought. Hence...
THE AMAZING CONTRIBUTION OF TELECENTRES TO OUR DIGITAL SOCIETY
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If you would rather look at the full text of my message to the amazing staff of Telecentre Europe, for their summit in Budapest this week, then read on. Not only does Telecentre Europe do great work – your conference is bringing to life the most i...
Deutsche Telekom confirmed.
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As expected, the CJEU has confirmed the General court decision in Deutsche Telekom. The case is available here. The Court confirms inter alia that (i) the as efficient operator test coule be applied (in my opnion, this does not means that a reasonabl...
ECJ confirms Deutsche Telekom margin squeeze
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It is October, and this year’s “top three cases”-list is already done: today the European Court of Justice gave judgment in the case C-280/08 P Deutsche Telekom AG (press release), a competition case concerning margin squeeze prac...
Chronically crap O2 service
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16th September – order O2 broadband and they send me a confirmation e-mail. 17th September they set up my direct debit. 24th September they activate the line, 2 days late, but not bad. The day after they even rather nausea...
Piebalgs proposes 10% increase in funding to the Global Fund
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Tomorrow, Andris Piebalgs, the European Commissioner for Development, will participate in the Third Voluntary Replenishment Pledging Conference of the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria in New York. Two weeks after the UN High-level...
Dear Proximus
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Thank you, dear Proximus, for prompting me to re-suscitate my blog. I thought it was dead. You have brought it back to life. How? Because You Suck That’s right, dear Proximus, you suck. Your customer service (sic) is so poor you have filled me...
Vågmästarställning när Alliansen har vunnit
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Alliansen har vunnit regeringsmakten med klar och tydlig majoritet, enligt alla opinionsundersökningar. Risken är stor att Sverigedemokraterna kommer in i riksdagen. Resonemanget här är baserat på att valresultatet blir som opinionsundersökning...
