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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9555

1 December 2007
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/telecoms council
Member States sceptical about pan-European satellite coverage of mobile services

Brussels, 29/11/2007 (Agence Europe) - On Thursday, the telecommunications ministers of the EU adopted a general orientation on the proposal of the European Commission to repeal the GSM directive (which reserved certain bands of frequency of the radio spectrum purely for GSM communications) in order to extend the use of these bands to offer a broader choice of service and technologies (UMTS). France and the United Kingdom kept in place the Parliamentary reserve they had entered, which did...

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