Paul Meller

European Commission suggests initial cap of 17 cents per text message

A year after introducing price caps on voice roaming, the European Commission will propose legislation to cap SMS roaming charges.

European phone companies charge each other termination fees for accepting calls from one operator's network to another's. The telecommunications commissioner wants them chopped, but the industry says one pan-European fee won't work. Instead, they want individual countries to regulate the fees

Europe's competition commissioner has cautioned Microsoft in its efforts to get recently-approved status for its Office Open XML format. There's already another open document standard, and some feel adding another will split scarce IT resources

As Google Street View prepares to launch in Europe, the EU's data protection supervisor Peter Hustinx has urged Google to respect local privacy rules. Although he hasn't been in direct contact with the Internet search giant about Street View, Hustinx is very aware of it.

Google's Street View service lets people see images of almost everything on streets it photographs. That's a concern in Europe, where privacy standards are among the highest in the world. An EU official speaks out

Mobile providers and manufacturers have funded a study which claims that providing more bandwidth for uses could be a windfall for Europe's economy

In a tight, non-binding vote, members signal displeasure over proposals to protect copyright over the Internet