by Yves Blondeel | Nov 5, 2004 | EU
The European Commission’s DG Internal Market has published a “Consultation paper on the treatment of mobile operators under the E-money Directive”, which considers in particular the nature of prepaid cards. Electronic money is defined in the E-Money...
by Yves Blondeel | Nov 5, 2004 | Portugal
Lei nº 5/2004 on electronic communications, which transposed the EU directives into Portuguese law earlier this year, contains very unusual stipulations on rights-of-way fees (designated as taxes). The law entitles municipalities to receive a financial compension,...
by Yves Blondeel | Nov 2, 2004 | EU
The Radio Spectrum Policy Group (RSPG) has launched a public consultation on secondary trading of rights to use radio frequency spectrum. The goal is to investigate the level of interest in secondary trading of rights to use radio frequency spectrum.The public...
by Yves Blondeel | Oct 9, 2004 | Netherlands
The Dutch regulatory authority OPTA has today opened the 088- number range to companies and administrations. These organisations (i.e. end-users rather than operators) can, from today, request the assignment of numbers from this range (which is officially named...
by Yves Blondeel | Oct 8, 2004 | EU
The European Commission’s eCommunications Consultation Task Force (eCCTF) has opened a Phase II investigation about a market analysis notified by the Finnish regulatory authority Ficora, and is formally inviting interested parties to submit their...
