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
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
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
