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Communications Markets

Clarifying small cell access obligations in Canada

To help deliver dense 5G networks across the country, the CRTC has confirmed its power to require operators to provide access to their physical infrastructure

CNMC hangs up on fixed call termination

Removing regulation would align Spain with an increasing number of EU countries and follow similar interventions in other wholesale telecoms markets

Event debrief: Connect Europe’s Policy Summit

Overall it was clear there is still no unified vision on the future regulatory path for the EU telecoms sector

Ireland: Refreshing the complaints handling rules for telecoms

In light of changing legislation, ComReg proposes new codes of practice to modernise consumer rights and improve the transparency of the complaints handling process

Responding to the SKT data breach

The breach, and the resulting exodus of customers from SKT, is already destabilising a fiercely competitive mobile market

Event debrief: ISPA ISP Summit 2025

Against a challenging financial backdrop, regulation, adoption and consolidation will together shape the development of the UK’s fibre market

Europe’s first SIM farm ban

The criminalisation of SIM farms represents one in a range of regulatory interventions aimed at stemming the growing tide of malicious messaging around the world

Germany: Vodafone and Vantage Towers harming mobile competition

The Bundeskartellamt provisionally finds that Vantage Towers could have done more to support new entrant 1&1 and may have instead favoured its parent company Vodafone

Ofcom outlaws Global Title leasing

The regulator is the first in the world to ban the practice, issuing an immediate ban to respond to the disproportionate harm that UK global licenses have facilitated globally

The Delete, Delete, Delete playbook

The responses to the FCC’s call for input on deregulation amount to an ambitious and even unprecedented plan for rewriting almost all aspects of the telecoms rulebook