regulation
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Ofcom referred the £7.5 billion UK cloud market to the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) for investigation in October 2023, citing several concerns around competition.
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The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has started a detailed Phase 2 investigation looking into Vodafone UK’s joint venture agreement with Three UK.
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Turkey’s national regulator, the Information Technologies and Communication Authority (BTK) is reportedly planning to implement bandwidth restrictions on Elon Musk’s social media platform X (formerly known as Twitter).
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The European Commission has published its latest whitepaper on digital infrastructure outlining its route to creating the digital networks of the future.
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Laws regulating subsea cables have largely remained unchanged for over the past 100 years, but why?
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Thierry Breton, the internal market commissioner of the European Commission is pushing for a single telecoms market in a move that he believes will foster growth and innovation and allow operators to adapt to rapidly evolving technology.
Forthcoming events
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The Competitions and Markets Authority (CMA) is seeking views on Vodafone’s merger with rival network Three.
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Carriers carrying IP voice calls into the US from outside now have to authenticate those calls before delivering them, or face fines of thousands of dollars per call.
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The US telecoms regulator is likely to be stuck in a two-two voting tie for months or years following the withdrawal of a Democratic-supporting candidate.
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A decision from EU antitrust regulators on the US$7.3 billion merger between Viasat and Inmarsat is expected today.
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The US regulator has imposed fines worth almost US$1 million on a dozen small phone companies that are not sending the right numbering information to a database.
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Data centres will experience increased regulation and third-party oversight in 2023 as the world grapples with rising energy and water consumption, global data centre experts at Vertiv believe.
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US regulator the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) has signed an MoU with the regulator of Georgia, the Georgian National Communications Commission, "concerning bilateral cooperation in telecommunications and media policy".
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Public hearings are underway in South Africa today as the regulator garners industry feedback on its call termination regulations implemented in 2014.
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Senegal’s telecoms regulator has fined operators a total of almost US$35 million for quality of service – though they are contesting the decisions.
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Fourteen months and more than $6 billion later, TracFone Wireless is now part of Verizon.
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The European Union has imposed tariffs on fibre cables imported from China in a bid to tackle artificially low prices.
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The focus of ongoing anti-competition investigations in Europe could be about to make the inevitable shift to cloud services.
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The low Earth orbit satellite industry should be ready to face regulatory challenges, according to a Capacity Europe panel.
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The UK regulator has fined Colt £15,000 because the carrier provided “incorrect and incomplete information” in response to its review of the wholesale market.
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The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will open a $1.9 billion programme to reimburse mostly rural telecoms carriers for removing network equipment from Chinese companies.
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The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has opened applications for the upcoming auction of 5G spectrum in the 850/900 MHz band.
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The UK's competition regulator, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has told a government department that NVIDIA’s purchase of Arm "raises serious competition concerns" and warrants an in-depth investigation.
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Eloise Walker and Catherine Robins from Pinsent Masons, explain how changes to the international tax system will affect telecoms and tech multinationals.
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The UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is to conduct an in-depth investigation into the sale of CK Hutchison’s tower assets to Cellnex.
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Huawei is one issue, but the UK's Telecoms Security Bill also changes penetration testing requirements. Matias Madou, co-founder & CTO, Secure Code Warrior explains
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Season 2, episode 22 is presented by editor Melanie Mingas, and features editor-at-large Alan Burkitt-Gray and deputy editor Natalie Bannerman.
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Addressing the blight of spoofing and robocalls, today, 30 June, marks the last day for US phone companies to implement ID authentication using technical standards known as Stir/Shaken.
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Gordon Moir, Partner at Wiggin LLP, explains the vulnerable and challenging situation the UK telecoms industry will find itself in as a result of the new telecommunications (security) bill
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Historic difficulties building cell sites in the Philippines affected the deployment of 5G across the country, according to Globe president and CEO Ernest Cu.
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Minister of Communications, Yoaz Hendel, has confirmed that Israel is to abolish the split it imposed between infrastructure providers and internet service suppliers.
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The German telecoms regulator has issued 123 licences for private 4G and private 5G networks.
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Broadband operators in the US paid research companies to generate 18 million fake emails to the telecoms regulator and half a million fake letters to Congress, the New York attorney general is claiming.
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Joe Mucheru, Kenya's ICT Cabinet Secretary has given the country's foreign owned firms a deadline of March 2024 to ensure 30% local ownership.
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The UK's newest regulator has opened for business, this time with big tech in the cross hairs.
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Ed Cooke, founder of Conexus Law, explains how he sees Brexit impacting data centres and how the industry can make its voice heard as new regulations are developed
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The UK's Digital Regulation Cooperation Forum (DRCF) has outlined its priorities for the year ahead, saying that its new strategy "represents a real step change in both its scope and ambition".
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The regulator in Lesotho in south-eastern Africa is in the middle of a battle with the country’s biggest operator, an offshoot of South Africa’s Vodacom.
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Telefonica's O2 has been handed a £10.5 million fine from British regulator Ofcom after it admitted to breaching rules around customer contract terminations.
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Lawyers have set out some of the challenges that could be faced by the UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) post-Brexit.
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Virna Rizzo and Jordan Le Gallo, lawyers at Cohen Amir-Aslani, a member of Globalaw, explain the impact of Brexit on the UK's Competition and Markets Authority.
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The French Senate and the National Assembly have separately approved the nomination of Laure de la Raudière to head the country’s telecoms regulator.
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As the Biden-Harris administration comes into power at noon Eastern Time today, leaders in the telecoms industry have told Capacity what their priorities should be.
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The year 2020 brought enormous and unexpected change across the globe, and across our telecommunications networks.
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Uganda has doubled down on security concerns by blocking more areas of its communications networks.
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It's been a challenging week for China's TMT players, but it looks like things will get worse before they get better.
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The UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is to investigate Nvidia Corp’s US$40 billion deal to buy UK-based chip designer Arm Holdings.
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Israel's Ministry of Communications is working on new legislation that will enhance the country's "import and operation" of advanced technologies, including IoT, for the first time.
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This episode features deputy editor Melanie Mingas, editor-at-large Alan Burkitt-Gray and senior reporters Natalie Bannerman and Abigail Opiah.
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Saudi Arabia’s communications commission has outlined plans to transition into a digital regulator.
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China has embarked on a multi-billion dollar buying spree as it prepares for US sanctions on its tech and communications industry to come into effect.
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BT has called for a new plan for rural and remote connectivity in the UK after Ofcom launched an investigation into its compliance with universal service obligations (USOs).
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After banning Chinese vendors from 5G networks, the US could now turn attention to the security of its subsea cable connections.
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The Georgian National Communications Commission (GNCC) has issued a final deadline for NEQSOL Holding to reverse its acquisition of internet service provider Caucasus Online.