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EU Lawmaker Says U.S. Tech Giants Should be Regulated Where They are

Based

U.S. tech giants such as Apple (AAPL.O), act's core proposal. "It makes sense to based on the fact that you have visited
Google, Facebook (FB.O) and Amazon keep the country-of-origin principle," she websites for buying shoes and things like
(AMZN.O) should be regulated by the told Reuters in an interview. Schaldemose that, classic commercial advertisements
EU country where they are based under however wants to go one step further should probably be allowed," she said.
proposed EU rules, a top lawmaker said than Vestager by including a ban on some Schaldemoe said she hopes to finalize her
on Tuesday, knocking back efforts by targeted advertising in the DSA. "Targeted draft with other lawmakers in the next two
some countries to broaden the planned advertisements that are based on your months so she can thrash out a deal with
act's scope. The country-of-origin behavior on Facebook, for instance, that EU countries next year before the proposed
principle is set out in EU antitrust chief should not be allowed. Advertisements rules can be implemented.
Margrethe Vestager's draft rules known
as the Digital Services Act which requires
U.S. tech giants to do more to police the
internet for illegal and harmful content.
The principle means Ireland is responsible
for regulating Apple, Alphabet (GOOGL.O)
unit Google and Facebook because they
have their European headquarters there
while Amazon is subject to Luxembourg's
supervision. France and a few other
countries are seeking to broaden the scope,
worried that enforcement concentrated in
just two countries may weaken the rules
and also slow down decision-making.
Lawmaker Christel Schaldemose, who is
steering the DSA through the European
Parliament and has power to amend or
add other provisions to it, supports the

ITU Gives Nod to Non-Cellular 5G Standard

The International Telecommunication enabling companies to operate without every device is a base station”, and these
Union’s Radiocommunication Sector middlemen or subscription fees, as well as devices automatically find the “best route”
(ITU-R) recognized the world’s first non- store and consume the data generated in to allow for reliable communication. Jussi
cellular 5G technology standard, a move the best way “they see fit for them”. This Numminen, vice chair of the ETSI technical
designed to provide enterprises the ability could be used anywhere from on-premise, committee, pointed to a lot of hype around
to autonomously manage networks in public cloud or anything in between. ETSI private networks, but claimed this was
without operators. Dubbed ETSI DECT- further explained the standard supports the first 5G technology to support shared
2020 NR, the specification will be included use of shared spectrum, enabling access spectrum operation and multiple networks
as part of 5G standards in IMT-2020 to free international frequencies including in mobile system frequencies. “With the
technology recommendation, with the 1.9GHz. On the technology side, non- ETSI standard you get immediately access
aim of democratizing IoT usage and de- cellular 5G is built on different principles to a free, dedicated 1.9GHz frequency
centralizing infrastructure. In a statement, from cellular 5G, with one of the biggest internationally. It is a perfect match for
European standards member group ETSI differences coming from a decentralized massive IoT,” he explained.
noted the development eliminated network network. In this instance, “every device is
infrastructure and single point failure, while a node, every device can be a route, as if

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