In addition to my December 26 post, let me share with you something that I have gathered on the net. This tackles about another advantage of recycling old mobile phones. Instead of just throwing away their old phones, some people in the United Kingdom are mandated by the European Union to collect and recycle approximately

Phones with navigation features or mobile TV functionalities may see a 14% tax on them if the new proposed European Union law passes. Under the new EU proposal, those phones will be classified as multi-functional devices. According to Engadget Mobile, Sony Ericsson and Nokia are both against the new law. Given everyone's struggles, both consumers and manufacturers, a law would make electronic...

The European Union plans to introduce a tax on mobile phones incorporating TV receivers and/or GPS. A 14% tax would be applied on devices with TV receivers and a 3.7% tax on GPS enabled phones. Maria Assimakopoulou, a spokeswoman for the EU Tax Commissioner Laszlo Kovacs, told Reuters that it is going to take at least

Oh noes! The European Union is reportedly mulling a tax increase on handsets that boast TV receivers or GPS modules, and we're not talking just a few pennies (or whatever you folks use over there). The European Commission has put forth a proposal to "reclassify some phones as multi-functional devices, which would trigger a 14-percent tax on mobiles with TV receivers and 3.7-percent on navigat...

The European Union executive is planning to tax some mobile phones, a move that would mean higher prices for consumers, representatives from the wireless industry said. Last week, the European Commission sent member states a formal proposal that has not been made public to reclassify some phones as "multi-functional devices," which would trigger a 14 percent tax on devices with television receiver...

Only the other day, I mentioned that the European Union's interventions in areas of technology should be restricted to consumer and competition issues, as it patently doesn't understand the subtleties of computing and communications. The Register has a great example of European inadequacies and worrying authoritarianism. State authorities installing trojans on peoples' PCs to enable...

Companies in the News: European Union, Good OS, VIXXI Solutions, Quattro Wireless, Panasonic, Hands-On Mobile, Activision Publishing, SMobile.

As anticipated, European Union telecoms chiefs last week officially endorsed a plan introduced by EU Telecommunications Commissioner Viviane Reding to establish new mobile data retail price caps. The changes, expected to roll out across all 27 EU member nations in July 2009 pending the expected approval of European Parliament, call for limits of 11 euro cents (14 cents U.S.) on retail charges for ...

Governments in the European Union are set to regulate the costs on roaming charges of data usage and text messages. According to Mobile Industry Review, by citing Reuters, the EU Telecoms Commissioner has outlined the cost should be at 11 Euros cents for a roaming text message, compared with the existing average rate of 29. This

News has reached us from Reuters that governments in the European Union are set to regulate the costs on data usage and text messages whilst roaming. No need to sell your organs anymore whilst on holiday, just to cover your costs. They also believe this could open up talks on other services being acted upon in