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
Brazil: USO for the 21st century
As the fair share debate rages on in Brazil, the question of how to fund more ambitious visions for comprehensive digital inclusion remains unsettled
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
The policy response to the Optus network outage
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
