by Yves Blondeel | Jun 8, 2021 | France
The French regulatory authority ART has today published a consultation document concerning the phasing out of ’12’ as the traditional directory enquiries number (used today by France Télécom and by other operators), and its replacement by a new number...
by Yves Blondeel | Jun 8, 2021 | France
The French regulatory authority ART has decided to conduct a formal market analysis, with a view to determining whether a “wholesale market for the termination of SMS messages” should be identified as a relevant market (susceptible to specific ex-ante...
by Yves Blondeel | Jun 8, 2021 | France
The Loi de finances rectificative pour 2003 retroactively reduces the annual fee to be paid by holders of individual licences to operate fixed public telecommunications networks and voice telephony for the year 2003. In addition, as a result of successful legal action...
by Yves Blondeel | Jun 8, 2021 | France
The French Official Journal of 16 Nov 2003 contains a new Decree, which sets out terms and conditions under which local authorities (and associations or bodies created by local public authorities), are entitled to finance the construction of antenna sites or to grant...
by Yves Blondeel | Nov 9, 2006 | France
Iliad S.A., the EuroNext quoted holding company which owns Free, the French alternative operator which pioneered triple-play services using its own flavour of ADSL2+, made a series of major announcements today, which deserve attention from a telecommunications...
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,...
