Carrying through with its original proposals would have made the UK an outlier in the regulation of A2P SMS termination rates
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
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
The end of the US’ four-player market dream?
Spectrum sales will generate EchoStar a considerable profit and ease FCC pressure, but at the cost of its mobile and satellite network ambitions
Boosting mobile services with mmWave
As some regulators in Europe practice patience, in the UK Ofcom moves to release the largest amount of spectrum it has ever awarded in a single auction
Deregulating copper access in rural New Zealand
Having laid out the evidence for removing all regulation from Chorus’ copper network, ComCom awaits the Minister’s support for its recommendation
BNetzA settles MVNO access dispute
More than two years on from the original complaint, the regulator has set terms for the shared use of mobile operators’ networks in Germany
Germany: BNetzA ends monitoring of fibre overbuild
Having found no clear examples of anti-competitive behaviour by Deutsche Telekom, altnets will need to give the regulator sufficient reason to consider any future investigations
AGCOM extends general authorisation regime to CDNs
Despite a largely negative response from stakeholders, the regulator decided to move forward with its proposal, making Italy the only EU country to capture this type of provider under the EECC
