By Editor on October 2, 2009 · Leave a Comment
British
Mobile operators are facing defeat in their battle against EU plans to regulate
international roaming rates, after the EU’s Advocate General ruled that the price caps were valid.
Luis Miguel Poiares Pessoa Maduro, the Advocate General and a key adviser to the European Court of Justice, ruled recently that the regulation is in the interests of the internal market in which ‘free movement of goods, services and capital is ensured’.
His decision is non-binding but in vast majority of cases rulings by Advocate Generals are heeded by the European Court of Justice. The final ruling will be delivered over the coming months.
Maduro said in a statement: ‘The differences in price between calls made within one’s own member state and those made while roaming could reasonably be regarded as discouraging the use of cross-border services such as roaming.’
The case was referred to the European Court of Justice in 2007 by the UK High Court.
British Mobile operators are facing defeat in their battle against EU plans to regulate international roaming rates, after the EU’s Advocate General ruled that the price caps were valid.
Vodafone, Orange, T-Mobile and O2 are challenging plans by the European Commission to regulate roaming charges on voice calls.
Luis Miguel Poiares Pessoa Maduro, the Advocate General and a key adviser to the European Court of Justice, ruled recently that the regulation is in the interests of the internal market in which ‘free movement of goods, services and capital is ensured’.
His decision is non-binding but in vast majority of cases rulings by Advocate Generals are heeded by the European Court of Justice. The final ruling will be delivered over the coming months.
Maduro said in a statement: ‘The differences in price between calls made within one’s own member state and those made while roaming could reasonably be regarded as discouraging the use of cross-border services such as roaming.’
The case was referred to the European Court of Justice in 2007 by the UK High Court.
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By Editor on June 18, 2009 · Leave a Comment
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: SpinVox, the global leader in voice to content messaging, announced today that the company’s speech-to-text conversion service is being deployed as a network service through an additional 12 countries in Telef³nica’s mobile operations across Latin America. Spinvox service will be available to all Telef³nica’s mobile customers in the region.
Argentina; Colombia; Ecuador; El Salvador; Guatemala; Mexico; Nicaragua; Panama; Peru; Uruguay and Venezuela will offer the service as will Vivo, Telef³nica’s joint venture with Portugal Telecom in Brazil.
The agreement builds on the October 2008 announcement from SpinVox and Telef³nica’s Movistar Chile of the launch of the first speech-to-text service in Latin America. (more…)
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