TelefÃ³nica hit by record Ââ¬152m anti-trust fine
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Business & money: European commission finds O2 owner guilty of squeezing rivals out of Spanish broadband market.
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Mobile firms feel pain yet again Europe's highest court has ruled that the huge amounts telcos paid for their 3G licences didn't include VAT, so there's no opportunity for the companies to reclaim Â£3.3bn quid from the treasury.â¦
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Elisa, Finland's second largest phone operator, sued Finnish-Swedish competitor TeliaSonera for 300 million euros (386 million dollars) in repayment and damages, claiming it has been overcharged for services.
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Keel-hauled outfit suffers biggest-ever settlement An unnamed international media firm has agreed to pay a record fine of â¬2.5m ($3.46m) for being found to have "significant shortfalls in software licenses".â¦
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ARSENAL manager Arsene Wenger was fined &amp;pound15,000 ($38,000) by the Football Association today for calling Manchester United striker Ruud van Nistelrooy a cheat.
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Microsoft has lost its appeal against a record 497m euro fine imposed by the European Commission in a long-running competition dispute. A probe concluded in 2004 that Microsoft was guilty of freezing out rivals in server software and products such as media players.
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ARSENE WENGER was punished for speaking his mind last night when he was fined a record Â£15,000 for calling Ruud Van Nistelrooy a &quot;cheat.
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Late last month, the Court of First Instance in Brussels issued a decision ordering Scarlet, one of Belgium&#39;s leading ISPs, to begin blocking copyrighted material that passes through its servers. The court gave the ISP six months to implement one or more technologies recommended by a court-appointed expert, and threatened the company with fines of up to 2,500 euros per day (roughly US$3,400) if it fails to comply.
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Eutelia, l&#39;ex PlugIt che ha acquisito Edisontel e piÃ¹ recentemente Noicom, risponde piccata alle dichiarazioni fatte dal commissario dell&#39;Authority Alessandro Luciano dopo la sanzione di 3,25 mln di euro, inflitta all&#39;operatore per l&#39;uso fraudolento
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THE RULING: Microsoft Corp. lost an appeal at the European Union's Court of First Instance to get a landmark 2004 antitrust ruling and record 497 million euro ($613 million) fine overturned.
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TelefÃ³nica claims clear conscience O2 parent company TelefÃ³nica has protested innocence after it was slammed by European anti-trust regulators for gaming the broadband market in its Spanish home territory.â¦
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Software giant Microsoft MSFT.O has   filed an appeal against a 280.5 million euro ($356.4 million)   fine the European Commission imposed in July, holding it defied   a 2004 antitrust ruling.
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Da maggio 2002 a settembre 2004, sono oltre tre milioni i clienti di telefonia mobile che hanno cambiato operatore mantenendo lo stesso numero telefonico. Il dato Ã¨ stato comunicato dallâ l&#39;AutoritÃ  per le garanzie nelle comunicazioni.
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La compagnia telefonica ha registrato un totale di 232 mln
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Biter bit Comment Qualcomm had yet another setback in the courtroom this week, as Broadcom was awarded $19.64m in damages for incorporating Broadcom technology in its baseband chips and software.â¦
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AMSTERDAM, Netherlands -- The Dutch telecommunications watchdog has issued its first fines under the nation&#39;s ban on spam. The highest single fine - for $61,000 - went to a person involved with four spam e
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Mobile phone operators face a new attack on their revenue in Europe after the UK telecoms regulator expressed concern about "extremely high" prices paid by consumers and business people for web surfing on their mobiles while abroad.