By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Europes top court will rule on Thursday whether MasterCards cross-border card fees, a lucrative revenue source for the financial industry and the subject of a decade-long battle with EU regulators, are anti-competitive. Regulators on both sides of the Atlantic have cracked down on so-called payment card interchange fees, […]
By Foo Yun Chee and Julien Toyer BRUSSELS/MADRID (Reuters) – Spanish telecoms operator Telefonica has offered to lease spectrum and access to its network to rivals in a bid to win European Union approval for its planned purchase of KPN’s E-Plus unit in Germany, three sources said on Tuesday. The company’s aim is to create […]
By Foo Yun Chee and Leila Abboud BRUSSELS (Reuters) – EU lawmakers postponed a planned vote on Monday on scrapping mobile phone roaming charges by 2015 and preventing telecoms network operators from charging companies such as Google and Amazon to provide faster web services. Officials from the European Parliament said the committee vote, one step […]
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