The Local Germany https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Germany in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed New law could let free Wi-Fi bloom in Germany Germany's government is set to finally loosen restrictive rules that have turned businesses off offering free Wi-Fi, media reported on Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.de/20160511/new-law-could-let-free-wi-fi-bloom-in-germany Wed, 11 May 2016 12:58:43 +0200 new-law-could-let-free-wi-fi-bloom-in-germany EU Commissioner 'to ban roaming fees by 2017' European Digital Economy Commissioner Günther Oettinger said on Monday that he wants to abolish roaming fees for mobile phone users within the EU by 2017. https://www.thelocal.de/20150623/eu-commissioner-to-ban-roaming-fees-by-2017 Tue, 23 Jun 2015 11:01:34 +0200 eu-commissioner-to-ban-roaming-fees-by-2017 T-Mobile to pay $90 mn over US fraud charges German mobile phone company T-Mobile has agreed to pay at least $90 million to settle US government claims that it bilked customers with bogus charges, US regulators said Friday. https://www.thelocal.de/20141220/t-mobile-to-pay-90-million-to-settle-us-fraud-charges Sat, 20 Dec 2014 09:51:00 +0100 t-mobile-to-pay-90-million-to-settle-us-fraud-charges German giants post feeble figures Major German companies Siemens, Deutsche Telekom, and Commerzbank all reported poor third quarter figures on Thursday, confounding reports that the country's economy was weathering the global storm. https://www.thelocal.de/20121108/46057 Thu, 08 Nov 2012 13:36:00 +0100 46057 Study: mobiles won't cause cancer Using mobile and cordless telephones does not pose a cancer risk for adults, according to a study by Germany's Federal Office for Radiation Protection (BfS) to be presented on Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.de/20080617/12529 Tue, 17 Jun 2008 10:13:00 +0200 12529 Germans boycott Nokia Bonn city employees are giving up their Nokia phones in solidarity with the soon to be unemployed Bochum residents. https://www.thelocal.de/20080123/10191 Wed, 23 Jan 2008 15:54:00 +0100 10191 Nokia’s plant ‘lured away by EU cash’ Nokia’s closure of its German production plant in Bochum, a city in the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia, and subsequent move of its production to Romania might have been in part caused by the Romanian region’s use of subsidies from European Regional Development Fund to attract Nokia. The new production plant in Romania is expected to produce mobile phones at a fraction of what production cost in Germany. https://www.thelocal.de/20080118/10107 Fri, 18 Jan 2008 18:22:00 +0100 10107