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The European Regulator Group (ERG), an organization that brings together the 34 national regulators of the European Union, recently published its second report on wholesale and retail charges for cellular communications in Europe. The ERG acts as a central point for collecting data from each country’s telecom regulator. This report gives a clearer picture of the effects of regulations on the price of cellular calls in Europe over the past two years. At a recent press conference in Europe, Daniel…

Air travel is about to become even more miserable now that the EU has given the green light for passengers to use mobile phones on planes. This deranged plan actually makes flying less safe because it increases the number of instances of air rage. While the EU and other regions pour millions of Euros into security on aircraft and on the ground, they pay no attention to creating an atmosphere of civility in the air and on the ground, one…

The EU is promoting the adoption of DVB-H as the single standard for mobile TV. DVB-H is considered to be an open standard unlike Qualcomm’s MediaFLO. The EU hopes that by endorsing one standard, as they did with GSM, the rollout of mobile TV will accelerate. The European Commission has endorsed the adoption of DVB-H as the single European standard for mobile TV. DVB-H, has been developed by industry via the DVB group and is recognized as an open standard…

Slowly the early adopters are coming up against the iPhone’s serious limitations. No one is griping about the beautiful design or the interface, it’s the lousy EDGE network and closed platform that are making people return the phone.Slowly the early adopters are coming up against the iPhone’s serious limitations. No one is griping about the beautiful design or the interface, it’s the lousy EDGE network and closed platform that are making people return the phone.

Salon’s tech columnist, Farhad Manjou, says…

I have received a number of emails from people saying that AT&T’s Edge network, which is used by the iPhone, is experiencing blackout problems today. I have received a number of emails from people saying that AT&T’s Edge network, which is used by the iPhone, is experiencing blackout problems today. I don’t know if the network failures are related to the iPhone’s launch last June 29 or if these are just the usual cellular phone glitches that people have become…

If you ever wondered whether Wi-Fi and VOIP were disrupting of old worn business models, look no further than the dirty war being waged by the UK arm of T-Mobile against Truphone, a mobile VOIP provider. I use Truphone regularly and this just makes my blood boil. Truphone, a mobile VOIP operator, is battling the UK arm of T-Mobile whose latest tactic is to kill off cheap mobile phone calls with a “T-Mobile policy decision” that denies access to cheap…