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MOBILE TELEPHONY : AFTER SMS RATES, DATA ROAMING COMES UNDER WATCH.
July 6, 2009... Short text messages sent from one EU country to another cost no more than 11 eurocents (excluding VAT) from 1 July, to the delight of consumers. The new rates reduce by half the present European average of 28 eurocents. The European consumers' lobby, BEUC, has now called on the EU to regulate...

ANTITRUST PROCEDURE/RAMBUS.
July 6, 2009... Operators with an interest in the microchip market are invited to submit comments to the European Commission on the commitments proposed by the American company Rambus, against which the executive launched an infringement procedure on 30 July 2007. Rambus is accused of abuse of dominant...

BEIJING SHELVES FILTERING SOFTWARE.
July 6, 2009... Urged to do so, China postponed - on 1 July - the launch of its controversial filtering software for computers sold on its territory, which has almost 300 million internet users. This software, nicknamed Green Dam', blocks information considered to be unsound' in order to protect children...

INTERNET USERS' RIGHTS : BREAK IN STALEMATE ON TELECOMS PACKAGE.
July 6, 2009... The European establishment claimed victory and expressed relief after the French Constitutional Council on 10 June struck down a French law that gave an administrative authority (Hadopi) the right to cut off the internet service of users who download content illegally. Only a judge may decide...

INTERNET : COMMISSION CALLS FOR REFORM OF INTERNET GOVERNANCE.
July 6, 2009... The European Commission finds that the ICANN(1) - the private US-based body responsible for coordinating key elements of the internet - should be obliged to report to the internet community as a whole and not just to a single government. Indeed, the US government is the only body with formal...