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A study carried out for the European Commission reveals that Europeans are shocked by the extremely high charges they incur when they use their mobile phones and laptops for data access outside their home countries. They are also unhappy about the the lack of transparency related to the pricing by volume of data (megabytes) used.

Indeed, lack of transparency is a serious problem: most people don’t read the fine print on their mobile phone contracts. When the operators say they are selling you…

Here’s your chance to tell the European Commission what you think about the recent EU rules requiring mobile phone operators to lower their roaming rates. The Commission has launched a public consultation and invites everyone to comment by 2 July 2008. Among the other issues they want you to address are:

inadvertent roaming (or involuntary roaming) when consumers use their mobile phone close to the border of a neighbouring country and are connected to a foreign network; the effect of the regulations…

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…