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Hold the phone: smartphones are mobile phones!

  • Squire Sanders
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • March 5 2012

HM Revenue & Customs have finally changed their mind; they now agree that smartphones (e.g. iPhone, Blackberry, HTC Android) are mobile phones for the purposes of the tax benefit rules

ECJ rules that prohibitions on sale and use of foreign TV decoder cards for viewing football matches breach Article 101 TFEU and freedom to provide services

  • Squire Sanders Hammonds
  • -
  • European Union, United Kingdom
  • -
  • November 3 2011

On 4 October 2011, the European Court of Justice (the ECJ) gave its ruling on questions referred from the England and Wales High Court, in relation to the use of foreign satellite decoder cards for the broadcast of English Football Association Premier League matches

OFCOM determination to give effect to CAT order on termination charges

  • Squire Sanders Hammonds
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • November 3 2011

On 1 August 2011, the CAT upheld an appeal by BT, finding that Ofcom had erred in determining that BT's changes to termination charges for calls to 080, 0845 and 0870 numbers were not fair and reasonable, and held that BT had the right to impose certain specified network charge change notices (NCCNs) when it had sought to do so

Update on plans for award of 800MHz and 2.6GHz spectrum

  • Squire Sanders Hammonds
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • November 3 2011

As reported in our March 2011 bulletin, Ofcom consulted on its assessment of future competition in mobile markets and proposals for auction of the 800MHz and 2.6GHz spectrum bands

Ofcom bans rollover contracts

  • Squire Sanders Hammonds
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • October 7 2011

Ofcom has confirmed that the sale of new rollover contracts, also known as Automatically Renewable Contracts (ARCs), which tie landline and broadband customers into repeated minimum contract periods unless they opt out, will be banned from 31 December 2011

TalkTalk and Tiscali fined for breach of Ofcom’s general conditions of entitlement

  • Squire Sanders Hammonds
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • September 8 2011

Ofcom has fined each of TalkTalk Telecom Ltd (TalkTalk) and Tiscali UK Ltd (Tiscali) £1,524,728 respectively for breach of General Condition 11.1 of Ofcom’s General Conditions of Entitlement (General Condition 11.1

Competition Appeal Tribunal refers phone call termination charge dispute back to Ofcom

  • Squire Sanders Hammonds
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • September 8 2011

The Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) has allowed an appeal by BT against Ofcom's handling of disputes relating to BT's termination charges for 080 and 08450870 phone calls

Ofcom publishes Communications Market Report 2011

  • Squire Sanders Hammonds
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • September 8 2011

On 4 August 2011, Ofcom published its eighth annual Communications Market Report (Report

When employees confess to data theft...

  • Squire Sanders Hammonds
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • August 8 2011

In our last Review, we reported on 2 former employees of T-Mobile who illegally obtained and sold lucrative mobile phone contract details owned by their employer to third parties

BEREC publishes report on infrastructure and spectrum sharing in mobilewireless networks

  • Squire Sanders Hammonds
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • August 4 2011

n response to a questionnaire circulated amongst national regulatory authorities (NRAs), BEREC and the Radio Spectrum Policy Group (RSPG) published a report on 5 July 2011 relating to infrastructure and spectrum sharing in mobilewireless networks

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