Telecommunications

Business shows support for forum

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ICC's Commission on E-business, IT and Telecommunications (EBITT) has expressed its support for a forum of discussion that would enable governments, business and civil society organizations to bolster the information society.

ICC calls for free market in mobile telecommunications

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ICC Secretary General Maria Livanos Cattaui today stressed the importance of allowing market forces to drive the progress of global wireless communications and urged business leaders to maximize the use of wireless technology to communicate, innovate and change the way they do business.

EU surveillance plans go too far, business tells ministers

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The International Chamber of Commerce is dismayed at a proposal to the Council of Ministers of Justice and Home Affairs to introduce communications data retention throughout Europe, and has written to each European minister of justice to ask that the proposal be dropped. The proposal was made by France, Ireland, Sweden and the United Kingdom.