Some of the nation’s largest internet providers are refusing to sign formal contracts with NBN Co over concerns the builder of the government’s National Broadband Network is trying to skirt regulatory oversight of its $36 billion monopoly.
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The legal feud over whether electronics manufacturer Samsung can sell its new tablet computer in Australia this Christmas may be heading to the High Court after the full bench of the Federal Court overturned an injunction on its sale.
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Ofcom chief executive Ed Richards, pictured in March, has said UK operators are ‘gaming the system’ in the run-up to the 4G spectrum auction. … more

A top lawmaker on Tuesday proposed harmonizing European Union privacy rules so that an Internet company could operate across the 27-country bloc as long as its data protection policies had been approved by a single member state.
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Telecoms companies are battling against regulatory attempts to improve their customer service and digging in against moves to introduce volume pricing and control staffing levels in customer service departments.
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The entertainment sector remains at loggerheads with internet service providers over online film and music piracy after yesterday rejecting a telecoms industry proposal to rein it in.
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The Taiwanese technology company HTC faces the bleak prospect of seeing sales of all its smartphones blocked from sale in Germany during the crucial Christmas period, after it withdrew its objections to a patent claim won by the German firm IPCom in February 2009 in a Mannheim court.
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Microsoft Corp.’s Skype Technologies SA unit will step up negotiations with British mobile-phone operators that keep Internet-based calls off their networks after the country’s regulator indicated it may intervene.
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Millions of Americans who got on a plane over the Thanksgiving holiday heard the admonition: “Please power down your electronic devices for takeoff.” … more

Ofcom today set out the steps it expects Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to take to ensure customers are aware of how internet traffic is being managed on their networks. … more