Carrying through with its original proposals would have made the UK an outlier in the regulation of A2P SMS termination rates
Switzerland: Copycatting the DSA
Though the proposed legislation reflects core features of the EU law, the Swiss Government has not incorporated measures to protect children online, bucking global trends
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: 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
Understanding the GDPR’s interplay with the DSA and DMA
The EC and EDPB are seeking to provide regulatory certainty for platforms navigating the overlaps in the EU’s digital regulation through proposed interplay guidelines
EU: Jutland Declaration on protecting children online
The ministerial statement reflects a growing appetite for an EU-wide limit on the ability of children access social media but stops short of proposing a specific age
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
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
US: Remedies in the Google Search case
Google’s avoidance of the most interventionist, structural remedies in the DOJ’s case against it herald an era of blunted ambition for global tech antitrust
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
