
EU wants a minimum Internet download speed of 100Mbps
By 2025
The European Commission wants “all European households” to have a minimum Internet download speed of 100Mbps+ by 2025, with businesses and the public sector being told to expect 1Gbps+.

LG snubs EU with V20
Europeans don’t want big screens, which is news to us
LG has decided that Europeans don’t want big screen phones and are not issuing the V20 in that region.

US government furious over EU Apple fine
Not paying tax is the American way
The US government is furious that the EU is starting to get hacked off with US companies not paying tax.

EU wants more privacy on web services
Extending secuirty and confidentuality of phone to Skype and WhatsApp
The EU is planning to extend telecom rules covering security and confidentiality of communications to web services such as Microsoft's Skype and Facebook's WhatsApp. However it looks like this could be used to restrict how they use encryption.

EU net neutrality plans going backwards
Ericsson worried about too many controls
Ericsson head of European affairs, Peter Olson has warned that new net neutrality guidelines drawn up by EU regulatory body Berec are taking the mobile industry “one step backwards”.

Hardware prices jacked up in UK
Thanks Brexit
Major PC suppliers are jacking up their prices in the UK following the country's brilliant move to show the world that Britain can economically destroy itself without any help from the EU.

EU votes for new cyber security laws
Major changes afoot
The European Parliament voted to spruce up the EU’s cyber security laws in a move which will have many companies tearing their hare (sic) and stamping on their rabbits.

Intel still contesting AMD fine
US$1.4 billion at stake
Intel is still contesting the landmark US$1.4 billion antitrust fine from the European Commission, which in May 2009 found it had abused its dominant position in the market for x86 processors.

EU blocks Hutchison’s O2 take-over
Would have harmed the UK mobile sector
The European Commission has blocked the proposed acquisition of O2 by Hutchison under the EU Merger Regulation.

Deutsche Telekom investigated over vectoring technology
Commission worried about competition
The European Commission opens investigation into Deutsche Telekom's plan to spruce up its broadband with vectoring technology.