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Roaming charges for using mobile phones when travelling within the European Union disappear on June 15, capping a decade-long battle by Brussels to show increasingly skeptical Europeans it can make their lives better.

Not only did the Greek cell phone market suffer another year of contraction in 2016, but the rate of that contraction was sharper than in 2015.

The leading international airline trade organization's top official on March 28 denounced U.S. and British bans on some electronic devices on flights from several Muslim-majority countries, criticizing the policies as a move toward "more restricted borders and protectionism."

The date was January 9th 2007 and for many it is a turning point for our technology: It was the day the iPhone was first introduced to the public.

The number of broadband Internet subscribers in Turkey has topped 59 million, while the ranks of cellphone subscribers is nearly 75 million, Communications Minister Ahmet Arslan said on Dec. 13.

France's first Boeing B787 taxis on the tarmac after its landing for delivery at Paris-Charles-de-Gaulle airport in Roissy, Paris on Dec 2.

American and British spy agencies have tried to intercept data from passengers' mobile phones on commercial airlines including Air France, French media has reported, citing documents from U.S. whistleblower Edward Snowden.

Mobile technologies have penetrated into our lives immensely. We have become so hooked on to our mobile phones that we cannot think about leaving home without our devices.  For many of us living in the more developed parts of the world, it is a social need more than anything, something like an addiction. But for the majority of the world's population, mobile technologies signify more.

Broadband access for cell phone users is particularly pricey in Greece, as a European Commission survey has shown that Greek mobile networks have made internet access by cell phone about 90 percent more expensive than the European Union average.

Police in Istanbul conducted an operation against a phone scam gang on Oct. 19, detaining 50 suspects, including the five leaders of the group, who were later arrested on charges of forming an illegal organization.

Bulgarian and Romanian seasonal workers in the UK may be good at picking strawberries even though they can't use mobile phones, a UK Tory lawmaker has said.