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03 Oct, 2011

Press release: ETNO-Financial Times 2011 CEO Summit

About 30 Chief Executive Officers of the leading telecoms operators and ICT equipment manufacturers from Europe and beyond, gathered today at the Digital Agenda Summit hosted by ETNO and the Financial Times, with Commissioner Kroes as keynote speaker.Brussels – About 30 Chief Executive Officers of the leading telecoms operators and ICT equipment manufacturers from Europe and beyond, gathered today at the Digital Agenda Summit hosted by ETNO and the Financial Times, with Commissioner Kroes as keynote speaker.

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05 Sep, 2011

RD359 - ETNO Reflection Document - Response to BEREC call for contributions on cross border accessibility of numbers

ETNO welcomes the opportunity to respond to this questionnaire about crossborder issues under Article 28 of the Universal Service Directive (USD). According to ETNO, there are no problems evident in the EU Member, States ETNO reiterates the difficulties and disadvantages of provisioning access to all national non-geographic service numbers between EU Member States. ETNO has serious concerns regarding, in particular, national non-geographic service numbers access provisioning at the international level.Executive Summary:

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01 Sep, 2011

RD358 - ETNO Reflection Document - Response to the public consultation on the ePrivacy Directive: circumstances, procedures and formats for personal data breach notifications

Data breach notification systems must remain valuable for end-users and excessive notifications, without due cause, must be avoided. “Undue delay” in notification to individuals should be the shortest period possible but it may not be appropriate to define a specific timeframe in legislation. Standardized notification forms may be useful when notifying authorities. However, flexibility around communicating with subscribers/individuals should be allowed.Executive Summary:

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05 Aug, 2011

RD356 - ETNO Reflection Document replying to the public consultation on Cloud Computing

ETNO belives there is no need for specific regulatory or legislative action on cloud computing. In particular, there should be no new consumer rights introduced. General rules of data protection and consumer protection should be applied to all actors. The main barriers include divergent implementation of the Data Protection and Data Retention Directives. Interoperability, standardisation and data portability are key issues.


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04 Aug, 2011

RD355 - ETNO Reflection Document - Reply to the public consultation on the Revision of the Community Guidelines for the application of State aid rules in relation to rapid deployment of broadband networks.

The Commission’s Broadband Guidelines provide a solid framework to assess the use of public funding for broadband network development. In this position paper, ETNO believes that in order for the EU2020 Strategy and the Digital Agenda targets to be fully reached, further funds should be made available for the rollout of NGA networks. In addition, next generation mobile networks should no longer be excluded from the NGA definition in the State aid broadband Guidelines.Executive Summary:

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