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Communications Markets

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

Deregulating wholesale access in Poland

An increase in the number of wholesale providers and commercial agreements between them have prompted the UKE to propose deregulation of the WLA and WCA markets

ACMA’s fees schedule for 2024/2025

The regulator’s plans to increase its fees to reflect new scams enforcement duties align with trends witnessed in the UK and Ireland on expanding regulator budgets

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

South Korea: Repeal of the mobile subsidies limit

The law’s repeal offers another context in which the Government is seeking to carefully balance the promotion of competition with the protection of consumer interests

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