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Kroes outlines single market reforms to MEPs
2013-07-10 08:59:00| Telecompaper Headlines
(Telecompaper) Neelie Kroes, European commissioner for the Digital Agenda, has outlined her plans for new legislation to support the telecom single market at a presentation to the ITRE committee of the European Parliament. Kroes expects to introduce legislation on the proposals in September and put the changes into law before the parliamentary elections next spring. As outlined earlier, she plans an operator 'passport', similar to what exists in the financial services sector, where authorisation to operate in one country is valid throughout the EU, and the operator need answer only to the regulator in its home country. More standardised network access products across the EU, such as virtual bitstream, higher quality interconnection and coordinated spectrum licensing, is also expected to encourage operators to cross borders. On the consumer side, Kroes reiterated her call for an end to higher fees for roaming or international calls and said she plans to introduce an element of 'net neutrality' in the law. The latter would see any form of "blocking or throttling" of specific services by operators, on any network or device, prohibited.
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Kroes: unify the mobile market or Europe will fall farther behind
2013-06-17 15:22:21| CNET News.com
Urging compromises so that today's 27 separate mobile-network markets can be replaced in effect by just one, the European Commission's Neelie Kroes lays out several ideas for reform. [Read more]
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Kroes says telcos must offer full Internet on every device
2013-06-04 02:00:00| Total Telecom latest issue!
EU's digital agenda chief aims to set out bloc's first net neutrality law this summer.
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EU's Kroes seeks an end to roaming fees
2013-05-30 02:00:00| Total Telecom industry news
Digital agenda chief to deliver proposals for single European telecoms market by Easter 2014.
Kroes targets telecom reform by May 2014
2013-05-27 11:39:00| Telecompaper Headlines
(Telecompaper) The European Commission targets implementation of a new telecom reform package before elections for the European Parliament in May 2014, said Neelie Kroes, the commissioner for the Digital Agenda. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Kroes said her full proposals would be detailed in July or August, before being put to EU leaders at their October summit, with the aim of getting the package approved by the European Parliament before elections in May 2014. In order to get her reforms implemented as soon as possible, she won't pursue a single regulator. Instead she will suggest that operators, which currently have to work with the regulator in each country where they are present, pick a "home" regulator and just deal with them. She also plans reforms to coordinate spectrum allocation of spectrum and cybersecurity more at the EU level.
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