AGCOM will hope that new stickers for 5G services do not lead to the same unintended consequences than with its labelling system for fixed broadband
UK: The impact of PIA on the leased lines market
New evidence from stakeholders has led Ofcom to identify stronger prospects for effective network competition than it had originally thought
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.
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
ComReg: Enforcing promotional pricing limits on Eircom
ComReg suspects Eircom’s promotional offer was targeted at Virgin Media customers and would not have been approved, even if properly notified
Belgium: Competition concerns of Proximus and Telenet’s joint fibre rollout
The operators’ proposed commitments to remedy concerns could reduce wholesale access prices by 30% and even lead to deregulation in the next market review
Event debrief: Digital Networks Act: Rewriting the DNA of Europe’s Open Internet?
A broadly partisan crowd rejected both deregulating and expanding current regulation, while criticising “terrible” network traffic analogies
Accelerating copper retirement in Germany
With pressure for progress apparent at the EU level, the German Government is advocating BNetzA picks up the pace in setting a framework for the country’s transition to fibre
Event debrief: FT/Connect Europe Forum
While requests for deregulation and in-market mobile consolidation were nothing new, there was a clear sense that increasing the speed of action has now been made an equivalent priority
