by Yves Blondeel | Jun 8, 2021 | EU
The European Commission has today issued a press release in which it announces that it has endorsed the market definition and market analysis proposals of the French regulatory authority ARCEP relating to wholesale and retail voice markets (1-6 and 8-9-10). Update 18...
by Yves Blondeel | Jun 8, 2021 | EU
Today, the European Regulators Group (ERG), a body which brings together the National Regulatory Authorities (NRAs) from the 25 EU Member States and the European Commission, held a hearing, at which interested parties were invited to express their views on the draft...
by Yves Blondeel | Jun 8, 2021 | EU
Today, the European Commission announced that its Competition Directorate (DG COMP) has opened a formal investigation, to assess whether public funding for a fibre access network (fibre to the home – FttH) in the municipality of Appingedam, located in The...
by Yves Blondeel | Jun 8, 2021 | EU
The European Commission announced today that it is formally instructing the German regulatory authority RegTP to withdraw a draft measure in which it had proposed not to designate 53 fixed alternative network operators as having Significant Market Power on the markets...
by Yves Blondeel | Jun 8, 2021 | EU
This morning, the European Commission adopted its long-awaited Communication on the review of the Scope of Universal Service. As expected, the proposal is to maintain the scope unchanged at this time, i.e. NOT to extend it to mobile communications and to broadband...
by Yves Blondeel | Jun 8, 2021 | EU
The European People’s Party (EPP) and European Democrats (ED) organised a hearing today in the European Parliament, at which the state of implementation of the regulatory framework for electronic communications was discussed, as well as its possible review....