Apple finds itself staring into the eye of a European antitrust storm
Otherwise known as Margrethe Vestager, the European Commissioner for Competition has been making life uncomfortable for Silicon Valley residents, and now its Apple’s turn.
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Europe’s GDPR blasted for underinvestment and enforcement
Open source web browser Brave has directed weighty criticism towards European Governments for failing to equipment data protection agencies and enforcing GDPR rules.
Europe releases guidelines for building COVID-19 apps
The European Commission has unveiled guidelines for member states creating COVID-19 apps, with perhaps an attempt to prevent mission creep from private industry.
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.
Europe asks Netflix to save networks by restricting HD streams
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.
Europe’s ‘circular economy’ strategy could be shake-up for mobile
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.
EU reportedly set to approve TIM/Vodafone tower JV
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.
Vodafone joins the EU in announcing major diversity initiative
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.
Europe unveils its digital grand plan
The EU reckons Europe can be a digital leader so long as it does what the European Commission tells it to.
The EU starts hassling US tech companies again
Facebook and Qualcomm look set for another round of scrutiny from the European Commission around their business practices.
UK telcos are potentially helpless in the European roaming debate
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.
Europe follows UK’s lead on Huawei
The EU is recommending risk mitigation rather than outright banning in its latest 5G security advice to members.
Could Iliad Italia be a victim of Corporate Darwinism?
Iliad’s Italian business unit has lodged complaints with Italian and European regulators regarding network sharing deals, but could these objections be effectively ignored?
25% of Europeans hold back personal information due to security concerns
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.
Europe wants to force all mobile phones to use the same charger port
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.
Europe says no to stablecoins until grey areas are gone
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.
Europe decides to punish Broadcom before its investigation is complete
The European Commission is in the process of investigating Broadcom for anticompetitive behaviour, but has imposed sanctions in advance of any conclusion.
Europe’s security vision undermined by lack of compulsory requirements
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.
Europe publishes 5G security report to state the obvious
After months of deliberation and consideration, the European Commission has published a report which comes to some fairly obvious conclusions on 5G security.
Europe steps up its censorship efforts
The European Commission wants to pay people to help ensure only the kind of information it approves of is allowed to be published online.
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