Europe gives operators minor throttling concession
The powers that be in the European Union have said its operators can do a little bit of traffic management if they absolutely have to.
The powers that be in the European Union have said its operators can do a little bit of traffic management if they absolutely have to.
European Commissioner for the Internal Market Thierry Breton has been on the phone to Netflix CEO Reed Hastings to officially request the streaming service slowdown downloads.
As part of the new Industrial Strategy set forward by the European Commission, rules designed to combat the throw away culture of today might have a significant impact on the mobile sector.
After announcing their intention to merge their tower businesses last July, TIM and Vodafone have had to wait nine months for the EU to give it a look.
Operator group Vodafone has decided to speak for the whole industry on diversity, while the EU is seeking to impose gender balance quotas on the whole bloc.
The EU reckons Europe can be a digital leader so long as it does what the European Commission tells it to.
Facebook and Qualcomm look set for another round of scrutiny from the European Commission around their business practices.
Brexit is now a reality for the UK, and despite the telcos asserting their commitments to the roaming status quo, the financial burdens could become too great to swallow.
The EU is recommending risk mitigation rather than outright banning in its latest 5G security advice to members.
Iliad’s Italian business unit has lodged complaints with Italian and European regulators regarding network sharing deals, but could these objections be effectively ignored?
For years, the tech industry has under-invested in security and now it might be about to hit executives in the place it hurts; the wallet.
Six years ago the European Union started ‘encouraging’ mobile phone makers to unite around a common charger format, but they didn’t take the hint.
The European Commission and European Parliament have dealt a blow to the likes of Facebook’s Libra initiative until they can write the appropriate rules.
The European Commission is in the process of investigating Broadcom for anticompetitive behaviour, but has imposed sanctions in advance of any conclusion.
For the most part, companies have to be forced to take security seriously, but perhaps these changes are on the horizon in Europe at least.
After months of deliberation and consideration, the European Commission has published a report which comes to some fairly obvious conclusions on 5G security.
The European Commission wants to pay people to help ensure only the kind of information it approves of is allowed to be published online.
Despite the promises made by politicians, few in the telco, technology or media industry would believe politics is designed to help, but ETNO think the tides are turning.
Lawyers representing Apple and the Irish Government has begun their arguments in the EU’s lower General Court in an attempt to protect the suspect corporate tax environment.
Not content with continually fining US tech companies in her role as European Competition Commissioner, Margrethe Vestager is now in charge of all things digital too.
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