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
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
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
