Optus, ACMA and the Australian Government have all come under criticism for failing to prevent the 13-hour long emergency calling outage linked to four deaths
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
The FCC’s Delete, Delete, Delete purge
While the regulator has been focused on cosmetic changes to its rulebook so far, its aim for more meaningful deregulation will likely draw more process-based objections
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
Event debrief: Connected Britain 2025
The event primarily remains a forum for debate on the future of the UK fibre market, as familiar sparks flew over potential altnet consolidation and the continued regulation of Openreach
US: Busting barriers to network deployment
Though primarily concerned about permitting delays and fees, the FCC is inviting operators to highlight any state or local regulation they see as stalling network rollouts
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
Canada: Hardening networks up north
The fallout of the 2022 Rogers outage continues to inform the CRTC’s policy development around network resilience and consumer protection
Coughing up ‘regulatory hairballs’ in Australia
As the Australian Government pushes for economic growth, the tech and telecoms sectors have called for reduced red tape and warned against new ex-ante regulation
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
