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MEPs to vote on controversial copyright law
2018-07-05 01:09:50| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Legislation that aims to bring copyright laws in line with the digital age goes before European MPs.
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Facebook privacy: MEPs to press Zuckerberg
2018-05-16 18:56:57| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Facebook's chief will attend a closed door meeting with European Parliament leaders in Brussels.
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MEPs approve updated telecom rules, call for cheaper long-distance calls
2017-10-03 13:32:00| Telecompaper Headlines
(Telecompaper) The European Parliament's Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE) has approved an updated version of the proposed Electronic Communications Code, announcing that the revised rules will give citizens better access to telephone and internet networks. In a statement, the parliament said committee MEPs agreed that EU communications companies should be required to justify when they charge additional fees to users calling from mobiles or landlines to another EU member state. "The regulating of intra-EU calls is the next logical step and will demonstrate our will to make steady improvements for the citizens and businesses of Europe," said MEP Pilar del Castillo, rapporteur on the bill. The Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (Berec) would be tasked with setting out guidelines on how service providers could recover the costs they incur in other ways.
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MEPs ask Oettinger to reverse German broadband decision in angry letter
2016-04-09 23:47:00| Telecom - Topix.net
Thirteen German MEPs sent a blistering letter to EU Digital Commissioner Gunther Oettinger slamming the German telecoms authority's decision to allow the controversial vectoring technology on copper broadband networks. The Bundesnetzagentur, Germany's telecoms authority, notified the European Commission yesterday about its decision to allow the so-called vectoring technology exclusively on copper wires to speed up broadband internet connections .
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MEPs to question Osborne on Google tax
2016-01-27 11:44:27| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
European MPs want Chancellor George Osborne to explain what they call the "very bad deal" that UK tax authorities have struck with Google over back tax.
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