by Yves Blondeel | Jun 8, 2021 | EU
The European Commission announced today that its Competition Directorate has opened a formal investigation to assess the way in the so-called “business rates” tax is applied to BT and Kingston Communications, the two fixed incumbent operators in the United Kingdom,...
by Yves Blondeel | Jun 8, 2021 | EU
The Irish regulatory authority ComReg has just issued a statement announcing that the European Commission has endorsed ComReg’s analysis of Market 15: access and call origination on public mobile telephone networks. This is a confirmation of ComReg’s...
by Yves Blondeel | Jun 8, 2021 | EU
The European Commission has published Part 1 of a Recommendation on the major supply conditions for wholesale leased lines, including leased line part circuits (also known as ‘partial private circuits’, ‘leased line interconnection’ and...
by Yves Blondeel | Jun 8, 2021 | EU
This week, the European Commission’s eCommunications Consultation Task Force (eCCTF) published two new letters, concerning notifications which were made by the National Regulatory Authorities of Slovenia (its first notification) and Ireland. The letters concern...
by Yves Blondeel | Jun 8, 2021 | EU
On 15 Feb 2005, the German regulatory authority RegTP notified the European Commission of its proposed market definition and market analysis concerning the markets for call termination on individual public telephone networks provided at a fixed location (Market 9)....
by Yves Blondeel | Jun 8, 2021 | EU
On 28 and 29 Sep 2004, the European Parliament held formal hearings of the Commissioners-designate with direct responsibility for telecommunications. Viviane Reding: Information Society and Media. Neelie Kroes: Competition Policy. The hearings lasted 3 hours...
