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The new European Communications Code (the “Code” – which we have blogged about here) will introduce a mechanism allowing investments in fibre networks made by operators with significant market power (SMP), in some circumstances, to be excluded
Continue Reading Co-Investment Models for Broadband Infrastructure – an explanation and short critique
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It is now almost two years since the European Commission proposed a new “European Electronic Communications Code” (the “Code”) which would amend and consolidate the current regime (dating from 2002). [i]
On 29 June 2018 a new, amended, draft was published. This is expected to go to a final vote in the Autumn of this year.
The Code will, when finalised, repeal the existing 2002 Directives and replace them with a single, consolidated text, for implementation in Member States within two years. Having spent some time reading through the (c.450) pages the main changes or issues appear to be as follows:Continue Reading The new European Electronic Communications Code
Article by Catherine Gysels, DLA Piper Brussels
According to Belgian criminal law, providers of telecommunication services are obliged to cooperate if an investigating judge orders a wiretap measure. In November 2017, Skype was found guilty of failing to give essential information and provide a wiretap on Skype calls as
Continue Reading Lawful intercept on VoIP services – Skype in Belgium
Just a quick note to draw attention to a decision by BIPT, the regulator in Belgium here
Lycamobile has been fined €30,000 for violation of the “roam like at home” requirements of the roaming regulation (contained in the 2012 regulation as amended in 2015). It appears that they were offering
Continue Reading Roaming and MVNOs – too clever by half
This note consolidates information we have available on the current (July 2017) status of telecoms regulator’s considerations of zero-rated offers in Europe. See also our other posts on zero-rating.
Conclusion:
Continue Reading Zero-rating and net neutrality – decisions (so far) in the EU
By Peter Elliott and Mike Conradi, DLA Piper
By many accounts, the UK’s framework for regulating communications services is amongst the world’s most dynamic and successful. Leaving in its wake a telecommunications licensing regime, in 2003 the UK Government influenced and then implemented new EU Directives which took a different
Continue Reading A new era for the General Conditions?
As new technologies emerge, and are treated differently across jurisdictions, businesses need to stay alert to changes in the regulatory landscape
The chief disruptors in telecoms today are found in new media companies – businesses that often did not originate in the telecoms sector but who are increasingly challenging the
Continue Reading Telecoms: the challenge of keeping up with cross-border regulation
I was on a panel session for the Total Telecom Congress in London on Wednesday and thought i would share some observations gleaned from other speakers that are relevant to the media sector and it’s intersection with telecoms:
Something like 20-30% of all mobile data traffic is advertising! This is
Continue Reading Mobile advertising and zero-rating
One quick thought on Brexit amongst many written today. It concerns the significant impact it will likely have on the price of international voice calls.
All through the EU the price that mobile network operators (MNOs) can charge one another for terminating calls made to their own customers (called the
Continue Reading Brexit and mobile termination rates
By Mike Conradi, Partner and Eamon Holley, Senior Legal Consultant
Summary
A recent and interesting case (Colt v Office of Communications [2013] CAT 29) has shed some light on when and in what circumstances the decisions of the UK’s telecoms regulator can be appealed.
Background
Colt Technology Services (“Colt”
Continue Reading Appealing a Telecoms Regulatory Decision
