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
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
