The European Commission requested France and Spain to abolish new taxes recently implemented on telecom operators to support public TV channels. In France, a new charge on telecoms operators was...
AT&T proposed settlements of class action lawsuits relating to certain billing practices of AT&T Wireless Services, Inc., which was merged out of existence when it combined with Cingular in 2004....
The European Commission has launched a consultation on net neutrality covering such issues as whether Internet providers should be allowed to adopt certain traffic management practices, such as prioritizing one...
EU telecoms markets have become more competitive, however a single EU telecoms market is still far from reality, according to a new report from the European Commission. The Commission's recently...
Major Internet players, including Amazon.com, AOL, AT&T, Google, Intel, Microsoft, SalesForce.com and others, have formed an industry initiative aimed at updating the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) of the United...
The European Commission has adopted new rules to make it easier for passengers and crew on ships in the EU's territorial waters to make mobile phone calls or send and...
Apple filed a patent infringement lawsuit against HTC relating to the iPhone's user interface, underlying architecture and hardware. Apple said HTC infringes 20 patents it holds in these areas. The...
José Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission, has selected Neelie KROES to replace Viviane REDING as the head of the Digital Agenda, which includes oversight of the European Network...
Starent Networks and the other named defendants reached a settlement in a shareholder class lawsuit n connection with the proposed acquisition of Starent Networks by Cisco Systems. If the court...
The European Commission adopted a directive on spectrum allocations for mobile broadband. The measures open the GSM radio spectrum band to more advanced wireless communication devices, making it easier to...
Nokia filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Apple claiming that the iPhone infringes Nokia patents for GSM, UMTS and wireless LAN (WLAN) standards. The ten patents cover wireless data, speech...
The European Commission has launched a public consultation on its revised proposals for the regulation of Next Generation Access (NGA) broadband networks. A previous public consultation held during the last...
Marvell Technology Group reached an agreement to resolve a shareholder class action lawsuit filed on August 16, 2007 against Marvell and certain of its former and current officers and directors...
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