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Communications Markets

Adapting telecoms networks for climate change

Though the Irish Government has considered a number of adaptive measures, it primarily plans to continue studying network resilience before legislating or regulating

ACMA’s five-year spectrum outlook

The regulator is set to make critical decisions on expiring licences and the upper 6GHz band, while supporting the introduction of a novel mobile USO

Q3 2025 results: Regulatory and policy highlights

European operators used Q3 earnings to stress the need for regulatory reform and in-market consolidation. Regulators were urged to adopt pro-investment, pro-consolidation frameworks to boost competitiveness.

Ofcom's proposals on mobile messaging scams

Unlike its peers, Ofcom sees the need to place additional, binding obligations on operators to help prevent fraudulent business communications

Regulatory controversy in South Korea

With the KCC failing to take any meaningful action, particularly to rein in big tech, the Government has established a new, centrally administered sectoral regulator

Ofcom closes its business messaging market review

Carrying through with its original proposals would have made the UK an outlier in the regulation of A2P SMS termination rates

Mobile market regulation overturned in South Africa

Following legal challenge, a high court has ruled that ICASA’s 2021 Regulations were flawed and disregarded the views of both MTN and the Competition Commission

ACMA rejects industry consumer protection code

The regulator’s decision not to register the TCP Code aligns with the Government’s recent push towards direct oversight of the sector

Assessing the impact of fibre network consolidation in Sweden

The KKV has opened a special investigation to determine whether combining two of the country’s five national operators would harm competition

Event debrief: Capacity Europe 2025

With important reforms looming in Europe, the regulatory model in France was singled out as having successfully enabled fibre investment and competition