Neelie Kroes, the European Commissioner for Digital Agenda, appears to be more committed to preserve the financial stability of historical telcos (incumbents) rather than pursuing a consistent and credible regulatory agenda […]
European Single Market: the honeymoon between Kroes and big telcos is over
Background: the European Commission intends to radically reform the regulatory framework for electronic communications services, in order to overcome the current fragmentation (28 countries and respective markets) and create a Single European […]
Net neutrality and competition: the European Commission shakes the European market
The European Commission has started investigations over dominant European ISPs (at least Orange, Deutsche Telekom and Telefonica) in order to verify whether they are abusing of their dominant position in the broadband […]
The end of international roaming, the beginning for the Single Market?
Today Commissioner Kroes announced a radical reform of international roaming in the European Union. The Dutsch Commissioner, leading the European Directorate for the Digital Agenda, proposed a plan whereby international roaming tariffs […]
The hands of China over Telecom Italia: how antitrust rules may perturb the deal
The envisaged purchase of a controlling stake of Telecom Italia by Chinese investors (Hutchison) is shaking the debate about the future of the Italian telecommunications market, and also raising questions about consequent […]
Liberalization of collecting societies: an accident, not a stop, from the European judges
A kind of accident for the liberalization of the collecting society sector, occurred today in Luxembourg at the European courts, will not however stop the process. The General Court of the European […]
The ups and down of European telecom regulation
Today Commissioner Kroes announced, via and ad-hoc press conference, the adoption of a well-expected proposal of regulation for the reduction of costs of rollout of broadband high-speed networks. On the same day, […]
Consolidation in the European telecom market: the understood misunderstanding
The European Council, which met in Brussels in March 14-15, finally acknowledged, upon request of the European Commission, the question about need for more integration for the telecom single market: “Digital Agenda and other […]
European Commission, Berec and broadband: behind the happy family picture
Berec, the European agency of communications regulators, today announced its intention to delay the adoption of an opinion on the proposal of Commissioner Kroes to strongly reform European network access regulation (via […]
Fight against online paedo-pornography: to-do and not-to-do list
A case of web-blocking occurred in Italy is re-opening the discussion about what should be done in order to fight efficiently and definively child-pornography in the Internet. Yesterday 14 February 2013 the […]
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