The European Commission is continuing its policy of closely scrutinising telecoms M&A activity with the decision to investigate the proposed acquisition of Belgian operator BASE by Liberty Global’s Belgian subsidiary Telenet.
The Council of the EU has formally approved new rules to end mobile roaming charges in the EU in ‘mid-2017’ according to its official online journal Consilium Europa.
Ofcom has set its annual mobile spectrum license fees 13 per lower than it mooted in February, but analysts say the new level is still likely to be met with protests from the operators.
A group of BT’s competitors have allied themselves with several professional bodies to send an open letter to the FT, calling for Ofcom to recommend a competition investigation into BT.
With the US AWS-3 auction in January generating a record price of $44.89 billion, for spectrum above 1GHz, questions are posed about the implications these high prices will have for consumers, and whether they may damage investment incentives.
he merger of the Danish business units of TeliaSonera and Telenor, which was announced in December 2014, had been abandoned following the failure to come to an agreement with the European Commission.
American telco CenturyLink has committed itself to expanding its broadband services by accepting an FCC grant worth $500 million a year for six years.
Google has launched a 100-page submission in response to the European Commission’s allegations of anti-competitive shopping search results.
Major players from the North American telecoms industry have written to the FCC in staunch opposition of a recent Wi-Fi Alliance request for stringent testing on coexistence regulations between LTE-U and wifi devices.
US telecoms regulator the FCC has announced its roadmap for the auction of 600 MHz spectrum, formally known as the ‘incentive auction’.
UK telecoms regulator Ofcom has submitted its report into the proposed BTEE acquisition and doesn’t anticipate any competition issues that can’t be dealt with through the standard regulatory channels.
UK telecoms regulator Ofcom has launched a free online tool designed to help people check the quality operator coverage in their area.
The UK telecoms regulator’s 2015 Communications Market Report finds that a 33% of internet users see their smartphone as the most important device for going online, compared to 30% for laptops.
Tom Wheeler, Chairman of US telecoms regulator the FCC, has offered an update on his views regarding 5G and spectrum.
UK telecoms regulator Ofcom has opened its consultation process aimed at making it easier for UK consumers to switch mobile providers.
The FCC has given AT&T the green light to go ahead with its acquisition of pay-TV operator DirecTV, under some strict expectations, which will see the telco bolster its multiplay strategy and customer base.
Swisscom has rejected an allegation by the country’s competition watchdog that its pay TV unit Teleclub is abusing its dominant position and must sell its service to third-party service providers in a fair and non-discriminatory way, reports Digital TV Europe.
The European Union’s Court of Justice has set limits and procedures on how competitors in any given market are able to challenge each other on patent infringement grounds.
UK telecoms regulator Ofcom has completed the first phase of its strategic review of digital communications and revealed a major focus is whether or not to separate Openreach from BT.
US mobile chip maker Qualcomm is the subject of two antitrust investigations by the European Commission that will look into possible abusive behaviour in the way it sells its baseband chips.
