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EU governments aim to reach Roaming Regulation deal by year's end

By Matthew Newman
  • 30 Nov 2021 12:08
  • 30 Nov 2021 12:08
EU government representatives have agreed to revise a mandate for legislative talks with the European Parliament on draft rules to lower fees for mobile roaming calls, MLex has learned.
Negotiations will focus on the key issue of wholesale rate caps, according to people familiar with the discussions. The revamped mandate

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Matthew Newman

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Matthew Newman is a chief correspondent for MLex and writes about data protection, privacy, telecoms, cyber security and artificial intelligence. Matthew began his journalism career in 1991 in community newspapers. He worked as a reporter in Riga, Latvia in 1993 and then moved to Chicago where he covered local news. In 1995, he became a personal finance reporter for Dow Jones Newswires, and was then transferred to Brussels in 1999. He specialized in EU regulatory affairs, including trade and telecom issues. He began covering competition for Bloomberg News as an EU court reporter in 2004. In 2010, he was named spokesman for Viviane Reding, the EU’s justice commissioner. In January 2012, he helped launch the commission’s proposal to overall data protection rules.

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