EU report casts doubt on 2030 digital targets
The European Union this week published its first annual State of the Digital Decade report, which was more a whinge about investment than a study on the current digital landscape.
The European Union this week published its first annual State of the Digital Decade report, which was more a whinge about investment than a study on the current digital landscape.
Nordic kit vendor Ericsson will receive funding from the German Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Action to work on the development of 6G radio microelectronics.
Recent developments in the EU, US and UK all contribute to a sense of increasing pressure to shape and constrain the digital public square.
The European Union’s competition commissioner Margrethe Vestager is taking a temporary leave of absence to pursue a top position at the European Investment Bank at a time when telecoms M&A is hoting up again.
Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, ByteDance, Meta, Microsoft are all now officially designated ‘gatekeepers’ by the EU, meaning they have six months to comply with a list of new regulatory demands.
While global interest in generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) has surged of late, only sporadic progress has been made on the ethical guardrails needed to protect society.
A European court has thrown out a previous verdict on a case linked to the long-abandoned proposed merger between Three and O2 in the UK, making the regulatory climate even more difficult to predict at a time when telco tie-ups are once again making headlines.
Deutsche Telekom, Telefónica and Vodafone are field-testing the EU’s digital ID scheme in anticipation of a broader rollout.
The EU and US have cobbled together yet another framework that claims to protect EU data stored in the US but there are still many reasons to be sceptical.
Seven major tech firms could soon be subject to strict new EU rules designed to curb their power.
The European Commission has declared that the proposed tie-up between Orange and MasMovil in Spain could harm competition, casting doubt over the likelihood of it approving the merger.
EU messaging around ‘high-risk’ vendors is looking increasingly like an outright ban on Huawei and ZTE, with pressure mounting on countries that have yet to remove them from their 5G networks.
The European Commission reckons Google controls too much of the digital advertising ecosystem and that the only remedy may be forced divestments.
Huawei has received millions of euros from the EU to fund some of its R&D activities, despite the EU itself heaping pressure on telcos to avoid using the vendor’s kit.
The EU has given the green light for up to €8.1 billion in state aid to be ploughed into R&D linked to chip design and manufacture, with a particular focus on 5G and 6G communication, autonomous driving, AI and quantum computing.
EU Commissioner in charge of the internal market Thierry Breton calls for a more homogeneous telco internal market, in the midst of a consultation on the future of the European telco sector.
Commissioner Breton has publicly called for EU countries to accelerate their replacement of high risk vendors from their 5G networks.
The majority of European lawmakers appear to be unconvinced by the idea of charging content companies for the traffic they generate.
According to a leaked EU document, there is significant appetite from some EU member states to allow private messages to be scanned in order to curb the spread of child sexual abuse material.
The Italian government is working on what is effectively an aid plan worth more than €1.5 billion to help national telecoms operators, it emerged this week.