Lexology PRO | Taiwan | 14 Sep 2023
Taiwan’s two biggest telecoms companies face a €2.2 million fine for conspiring to drop discount mobile plans to force customers to purchase more expensive deals.
Wiggin LLP | United Kingdom | 19 May 2023
Ofcom plans to update its earth station network licence so that non-geostationary orbit satellite services can deliver improved maritime connectivity. According to Ofcom, its plans are also designed to protect other services, such as radio astronomy, from harmful interference. Earth station network licences authorise access to spectrum so that ground-based terminals can communicate with......
Lexology PRO | United Kingdom | 16 May 2023
The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority has provisionally found that a behavioural remedy attached to Sky’s acquisition of an interactive TV services provider in 2001 is “no longer appropriate” due to changes in the market and regulatory landscape.
Lee and Li Attorneys at Law | Taiwan | 1 May 2023
In 2020, the National Communications Commission issued a draft of a law to regulate over-the-top service providers in Taiwan. Though well intentioned, the draft immediately sparked controversy: it fails to properly take into account the workings and regulatory requirements of IP infringement cases in practice. This article examines the issues raised.
Lexology PRO | United Kingdom | 5 Apr 2023
The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority is limiting how much Motorola Solutions can charge emergency services to use its Airwave network, although the company says it will challenge such an “egregious overreach”.
Lexology PRO | European Union, Spain | 4 Apr 2023
The European Commission has opened a Phase II probe into a joint venture between Orange and MasMovil, while still deciding whether to refer the transaction to Spain’s antitrust enforcer.
Kobylanska Lewoszewski Mednis | Poland | 14 Mar 2023
Recent months have brought a lot of changes and a lot of confusion in terms of reporting obligations, the most important of which was the replacement…
Lexology PRO | European Union | 13 Feb 2023
The European Commission has unconditionally approved a digital advertising joint venture between Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefónica and Vodafone upon finding they could not use their existing positions in the telecoms sector to stifle rivals.
Lexology PRO | Asia-Pacific, Canada, China, etc. | 7 Feb 2023
Some telecom regulators are adopting more “flexible” reporting deadlines, while financial services regulators are tightening them. But which approach encourages compliance?
Lexology PRO | United Kingdom | 3 Feb 2023
The UK’s communications regulator is collecting evidence for a possible antitrust probe into a BT subsidiary’s plan to lower wholesale pricing for fibre broadband services, despite provisionally concluding that the latest price changes do not restrict competition.