European Commission
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The European Commission has published its latest whitepaper on digital infrastructure outlining its route to creating the digital networks of the future.
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The European Commission has reportedly produced a proposal which suggests that Europe should start to build or upgrade its subsea cables with the support of state aid if necessary.
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The European Commission has approved the merger between Orange and MasMovil in Spain. The deal will take the form of a 50/50 joint venture, co-controlled by both companies.
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EU regulators could ease rules against telco mergers to get Big Tech and others to help rollout 5G, a Reuters report indicates.
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Thierry Breton, the internal market commissioner of the European Commission is pushing for a single telecoms market in a move that he believes will foster growth and innovation and allow operators to adapt to rapidly evolving technology.
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Huawei has hit back after the European Commission increased pressure on member-nations to stop the use of equipment from Chinese vendors in their networks.
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The European Commission (EC) has noted its objections to Broadcom’s planned purchase of VMware, citing concerns over competition.
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The European Commission has approved the acquisition of 75% acquisition of VOO SA by Orange Belgium.
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Four European telcos are to form a joint venture to build their own digital marketing technology platform.
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The European Union’s digital and competition commissioner has set out her goal for a “single European telecoms market” as what she calls “the only way to create the conditions to guarantee a return on investment”.
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The European Union has approved a proposal to start work on a €2.4 billion project to build a strategic network of satellites for critical infrastructure.
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27 telecoms operators have inked a joint statement enabling free roaming and international calls between the EU and Ukraine.
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Telcos support Ukraine as Russian operators face blocks
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The European Commission wants to give data users the power to control their own personal or corporate data and to switch between cloud providers.
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The European Union is challenging China’s use of its courts to block non-Chinese telecoms vendors from backing their patents.
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The European Union has imposed tariffs on fibre cables imported from China in a bid to tackle artificially low prices.
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Telekom Romania Mobile Communications is moving many of its services to the cloud – just as its main shareholder, Telekom Romania, is about to be sold to Orange.
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The CEOs of 27 leading European tech and telecoms companies have submitted an investment roadmap to the European Commission, outlining technological priorities in cloud and edge.
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Season 2, episode 9 is presented by deputy editor Melanie Mingas, and features editor-at-large Alan Burkitt-Gray, senior reporters Abigail Opiah and Natalie Bannerman, and special guest Mikael Schachne, the VP of Mobility and IoT Business and CMO, BICS.
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Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, has promised digital transformation for all 27 EU member states in 10 years.
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The European Union is today publishing a plan to set targets for technologies from cloud and edge computing to chips and 5G.
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The European Commission has published its draft decision on the data adequacy agreement setting out how personal data flows to the UK.
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Nokia has been appointed project leader for the 6G research initiative Hexa-X, scheduled to kick off in January.
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The European Commission has officially approved the €1 billion proposed acquisition of Covage by SFR FTTH controlled by Altice, Allianz and Omers.
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The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority is to review the proposed merger of Liberty Global and Telefonica’s mobile brands ahead of the country’s departure from the EU.
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The EU will soon confirm if the proposed merger between O2 and Virgin will be assessed by its Competition Commissioner or Britain's Competition and Markets Authority.
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A commercially available 5G core network has been successfully integrated into a live satellite network a spart of the SaT5G project.
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The European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) is pooling European resources to buy and deploy supercomputers and develop supercomputing technologies and applications.
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CK Hutchison may have won the war, but the battle continues following yesterday’s ruling from the European Commission.
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The European Commission has reversed its decision to block Telefonica from selling O2 to CK Hutchison, the parent company of Three.
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More than 10 telco operators have joined forces under a new European working group in the race to develop interoperable track and trace Covid-19 apps.
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Orange Belgium has petitioned the European Commission following the CRC’s draft decision on wholesale cable tariffs, claiming that actual costs have been inflated.
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Thierry Breton, the European Union’s Internal Market and Services Commissioner has called on streaming services to take steps to prevent an internet gridlock in the wake of the Coronavirus.
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The European Commission has detailed plans to overhaul its industrial sector with a number of investments in new technologies, including 6G.
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The UK government has warned people in Britain that the EU’s law on free mobile roaming will cease to apply at the end of 2020.
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Companies in France, Germany, Austria, Italy and Bulgaria have paid more than €100 million in fines for data breaches since the European Union’s general data protection regulation (GDPR) came into force in May 2018.
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The European Commission has launched an in-depth investigation into claims that Telia holds significant market power (SMP) in Sweden.
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EU ambassadors failed to reach a resolution on further regulation of over-the-top (OTT) players like Facebook owned WhatsApp and Microsoft’s Skype.
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Europe’s competition commissioner Margrethe Vestager will add responsibility for the digital market when the new European Commission takes office in November.
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The European Commission has come out against a proposed network sharing agreement by O2 and T-Mobile in the Czech Republic, along with network infrastructure company Cetin.
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Vodafone expects to complete its €18.4 billion takeover of Liberty Global’s eastern European business in less than two weeks, following today’s European Commission approval.
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The European Commission has upset Telia’s plan to move into Swedish and Finnish broadcasting.