by Yves Blondeel | Mar 10, 2006 | Netherlands
The Dutch regulatory authority OPTA has today issued a Position Paper in which it addresses the plans of the incumbent operator KPN to deploy VDSL2 from 28000 street cabinets, to provide voluntary access (mainly sub-loop unbundling and Ethernet VLANs) and to close and...
by Yves Blondeel | Mar 2, 2006 | EU
The European Commission has today published its eagerly anticipated comments on the notification made by the Spanish Comisión del Mercado de la Telecomunicaciones (CMT) relating to the market for access and call origination on public mobile telephone networks in Spain...
by Yves Blondeel | Mar 2, 2006 | Malta
The Maltese regulatory authority MCA has today published a consultation document which contains the market definition, SMP assessment and proposed regulatory obligations for the retail leased lines market, for wholesale terminating segments of leased lines and for...
by Yves Blondeel | Feb 6, 2006 | France
The French regulatory authority ARCEP has issued an eagerly awaited decision, resolving a dispute that arose between France Télécom (the fixed incumbent operator, initiator of the complaint) and Neuf Télécom (an infrastructure-based fixed alternative operator,...
by Yves Blondeel | Dec 7, 2005 | EU
The European Commission organised a workshop in Brussels to discuss current practices and legal challenges that operators and users are confronted with when offering location-based services. At the heart of the discussion lies the “e-Privacy Directive”...