law

New law could let free Wi-Fi bloom in Germany

Germany's government is set to finally loosen restrictive rules that have turned businesses off offering free Wi-Fi, media reported on Wednesday.

European Commission

EU Commissioner 'to ban roaming fees by 2017'

European Digital Economy Commissioner Günther Oettinger said on Monday that he wants to abolish roaming fees for mobile phone users within the EU by 2017.

telecom

T-Mobile to pay $90 mn over US fraud charges

German mobile phone company T-Mobile has agreed to pay at least $90 million to settle US government claims that it bilked customers with bogus charges, US regulators said Friday.

telecom

German giants post feeble figures

Major German companies Siemens, Deutsche Telekom, and Commerzbank all reported poor third quarter figures on Thursday, confounding reports that the country's economy was weathering the global storm.

Tech

Study: mobiles won't cause cancer

Using mobile and cordless telephones does not pose a cancer risk for adults, according to a study by Germany's Federal Office for Radiation Protection (BfS) to be presented on Tuesday.

subsidies

Germans boycott Nokia

Bonn city employees are giving up their Nokia phones in solidarity with the soon to be unemployed Bochum residents.

telecom

Nokia’s plant ‘lured away by EU cash’

Nokia’s closure of its German production plant in Bochum, a city in the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia, and subsequent move of its production to Romania might have been in part caused by the Romanian region’s use of subsidies from European Regional Development Fund to attract Nokia. The new production plant in Romania is expected to produce mobile phones at a fraction of what production cost in Germany.