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whitepaper To meet Brasil Telecom's regulation-related business and service provisioning challenges, the company needed to improve its order management and provisioning processes and reduces its capital expenses and operating expenses.
[08 Feb 2008]
News The EU Roaming Regulation came into force in the summer, forcing mobile operators to introduce a cheaper 'Eurotariff' for roaming customers. Viviane Reding, the EU telecoms commissioner said the Eurotariff is now the standard rate for roaming, one...
[05 Oct 2007]
News The publicised tariffs are a result of the EU Roaming Regulation - in force since 30 June 2007 - which requires mobile operators to make available, and actively offer, a revised tariff to their customers.
[24 Aug 2007]
News Walter McCormick, president of the US Telecom Association, which lobbies for more than 1,200 communications companies said: "Government regulation would make it against the law for any company to invest in customised internet service.
[10 Jan 2007]
News He said: "I think unless you find people at BT taking the lead and economics are improved, there will be resistance or we will be stuck with a fair degree of regulation. BT has already signed an NGN (next generation network) consultancy deal with...
[06 Dec 2006]
News If you look at emerging technologies like 4G wireless, they cannot be deployed as a result of slow-moving regulation. He told delegates at ITU Telecom World in Hong Kong: "The economics of next generation networks are so much better, there's no...
[05 Dec 2006]
Comment As things stand, it is run by a private business, surrounded by an immensely complex system of regulation. Private companies cannot be allowed to run monopolies without regulation. The history of British Telecom (latterly BT) is an illustration of...
[17 Oct 2006]
News Alaska's Ted Stevens, the committee chairman, accused his colleagues of "imposing a heavy-handed regulation before there's a demonstrated need". which back it - and telecom companies which oppose what they view as onerous new federal regulations.
[29 Jun 2006]
News I urge my colleagues to reject government regulation of the internet. that back it - and telecom companies that oppose what they view as onerous new federal regulations. The US House of Representatives definitively rejected the concept of net...
[12 Jun 2006]
News O2 is also keen to stress the move was unrelated to the threat of regulation by the European Commission. A spokesperson for Orange said that no further roaming price reductions were being planned, although the France Telecom subsidiary constantly...
[09 May 2006]
News New anti-spam regulation will be introduced by the Ministry of Information and the country has also established a centre for handling reports of spam. Cox criticised Chinese ISPs in particular saying they must do more to ease the spam problem...
[22 Feb 2006]
whitepaper This paper examines the justifications, history, and practice of regulation in the US telecommunications sector. This paper also examines the impact of the 1996 Telecommunications Act on market structure and strategy in conjunction with the history...
[24 Jan 2006]
Leader A key to VoIP's development has been the relative lack of regulation compared to what the telecoms incumbents face. More and more industry figures have come out against regulation. On the business front, Colt Telecom announced a VoIP service billed...
[15 Apr 2005]
News Despite recent comments from Skype CEO Niklas Zennstrom that there is no need to regulate voice over IP, new research shows regulation in this area is a concern in Europe. Twenty per cent of European telecoms executives said in a recent survey that...
[11 Nov 2004]
Comment One of the concerns industry watchers have about VoIP is the potential impact of regulation, with the industry is exempt from the restrictions imposed on traditional telephony service providers, but this may yet change.
[09 Sep 2004]
News It has urged Ofcom to reduce regulation of the retail sector, and to concentrate its efforts on breaking down the barriers encountered by new entrants to the market, rather than regulating on the basis of market share.
[23 Jun 2004]
whitepaper New regulation, revolutionary technology and maturation of traditional markets have altered competitive dynamics forever. The industry has seen some change over the years, but the rise of the Internet and the Telecom Act in the 1990s wildly...
[24 Feb 2004]
Comment On a less lighthearted note, the theme of much of the debate has switched from issues of regulation and competition to making sure customers are happy. An early start at the show - hotel lobbies are so useful when it’s apparently dangerous to admit...
[14 Oct 2003]
News Gary Corbett, MD for Opera Telecom, which operates premium mobile phone services for companies such as EMAP and Tiscali, said: "It's about time SMS service providers and network operators started to take more responsibility for self-regulation in...
[11 Jun 2003]
News A DTI spokesperson said that the Flexible Working regulation would be reviewed three years after implementation, allowing time for it to bed down. Using virtual private networks (VPNs) Avaya saved an estimated £690,000 globally in reduced telecom...
[27 Mar 2003]
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