European Union
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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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Only last week, 150 executives from a range of businesses including tech, telecoms and manufacturing have signed an open letter to the European Union asking it to rethink its upcoming artificial Intelligence (AI) Act.
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Wednesday saw the European Parliament approve the artificial Intelligence (AI) Act, making it one of the first regions to implement AI specific legislation at this level.
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Astrocast is participating in the European Union (EU)-funded XGain initiative.
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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 Commission signed an agreement with the European Investment Bank (EIB) for a €40 million EU grant to support the Medusa subsea cable project.
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Online platforms in the European Union have until three months today to report their number of users.
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The European Union needs to double its number of IT specialists and companies need to triple their use of cloud in order to meet targets.
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Telecom Egypt has borrowed €150 million to expand its 4G network across the country.
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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 moving ahead on its controversial plans to create a quantum-secure satellite system that will compete with Amazon’s Kuiper, OneWeb, SpaceX’s Starlink and others.
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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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Luxembourg is to build a satellite-based quantum key distribution network in association with its local satellite company, SES.
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The EU has granted unconditional antitrust clearance for US chip manufacturer Analog Devices (ADI) to acquire Maxim.
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Apple is planning a new semiconductor design centre in Munich, Germany, as part of its US$1.2 billion drive to secure supplies of semiconductor chips.
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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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Facebook has confirmed plans to move its UK users to new agreements with its corporate headquarters in California.
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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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BT Group is to launch a Dublin-based newco for procurement as it targets savings of £2 billion by 2025.
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Eurofiber has joined an international research project with a €10 million budget to explore the use of fiberoptic infrastructure and technology for 5G connections.
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ZTE and China Unicom are to collaborate on 6G technological innovation and standards while “actively promoting the in-depth integration” of 6G with satellite networks, IoT, the Internet of Vehicles, and the Industrial IoT.
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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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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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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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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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A meeting of EU permanent representatives has overwhelmingly thrown out a move to mandate Wifi for automated vehicles – leaving the way forward for 4G, 5G and other advanced technologies.