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
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
In-market mobile consolidation in Romania
Operators have secured approval, subject to commitments, for a four-to-three merger following the Competition Council’s most important review of recent years
T-Mobile secures approval for UScellular acquisition
Though they reached the same decision, the FCC and DOJ took distinctly different views of mobile consolidation, with the DOJ warning of the Big Three operators’ “oligopoly”
Event debrief: ComReg Conference 2025
Alongside further pushback against an overhaul of EU telecoms regulation, there were calls for the effective enforcement of cybersecurity frameworks amid geopolitical uncertainty
Event debrief: Towards a True Telecoms Single Market: European Perspectives and Danish Realities
Ahead of Denmark taking on the Presidency of the Council of the EU, lobbying has begun to ensure the Digital Networks Act is passed and crucially answers the pleas of the industry
Netherlands: A call to action on telecoms policy reform
The Government urges stronger regulation and effective competition, considering that the European framework should be seen as a success
Telecoms M&A under the Trump Administration
Despite FCC criticism, not all operators are willing to roll back DEI policies to secure regulatory approval for consolidation
Event debrief: Connect Europe’s Policy Summit
Overall it was clear there is still no unified vision on the future regulatory path for the EU telecoms sector
