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
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
