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- PRESS RELEASE
- Roaming prices: Calling home becomes cheaper again - but not (yet) texting across borders
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(28 August 2008)On 30 August, it will become cheaper to make or receive calls while travelling in the EU. The price ceiling for roaming calls (the Eurotariff) introduced by the EU in 2007 will fall from EUR 0.49 to EUR 0.46 per minute (excluding VAT) for making a call and from EUR 0.24 to EUR 0.22 per minute (excluding VAT) for receiving a call while in another EU country. These price reductions are the result of the EU Roaming Regulation, proposed by the European Commission in 2006 to curb the excessive roaming charges consumers had to pay for roaming calls (on average EUR 1.15 per minute at the time). The EU Roaming Regulation which will expire in 2010, is currently under review. Following the specific request of the European Parliament the Commission must propose by the end of 2008 whether to extend the Regulation in time and in scope. Figures published by national telecoms regulators this summer have shown that prices for roaming text messages and data services remain unjustifiably high.
See also: Press material on roaming
- NEWS ARTICLE
- The Future of the Internet
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(28 August 2008)Working and conducting business, creating and sharing content, learning, gaming or shopping, networking or phoning friends across the continents: all these activities are moving online. The Internet has revolutionised our social and business habits. And change is far from over. The European Commission launches today a new website stressing the challenges ahead, and the key role that the European Union could play in designing the Future of the Internet.
- EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT
- 3rd International Advanced Research Workshop on In Silico Oncology: Advances and Challenges
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23 September 2008 - 24 September 2008 Istanbul, Turkey
The workshop aims at contributing to the shaping of the emerging field of in silico (computational) oncology. In Silico Oncology is a complex and multiscale combination of sciences and technologies intending to simulate malignant tumour growth and tumour and normal tissue response to therapeutic modalities at all levels of biocomplexity.
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