Premium rate regulation extended across the value chain from 1 September 2011
News item topics are like buses – nothing happens for weeks or months, then everything happens at once. Following yesterday’s publication of the Phonepayplus annual …
Rob Bratby
Phonepayplus publishes market trends report and 2011/12 plan
Phonepayplus, the UK’s premium rate services regulator, has today published: a Report on Emerging Trends in the Premium Rate Services Market; and its plan and budget for the …
Mobile operators obliged to retain location information across Europe
There has been some coverage recently of the case of Mr Spitz. Malte Spitz is a German green party politician and privacy advocate. He went …
Does it add up: who will pay for network investment?
Today post is a guest post from John Enser and Matt Phillips, and is the executive summary of Chapter 2 (‘Pipes’) of their 2011 Convergence Survey: …
UK Budget doubles lifetime limit for entrepreneurs’ relief
The Watcher is not a tax lawyer, so (he suspects much like others) he relies on helpful summaries to navigate the impact of yesterday’s budget. …
UK to auction 800 MHz and 2.6 GHz spectrum in 2012
Ofcom yesterday started a consultation on the rules for a proposed auction of 250 MHz of spectrum in the 800 MHz (aka ‘digital dividend’) band …
AT&T and T-Mobile USA merger to face regulatory scrutiny
The biggest news this weekend was the announcement of the proposed acquisition of T-Mobile USA by AT&T from Deutsche Telekom for $39 billion. The deal is conditional on …
Reform of UK Competition law to lead to flood of merger notifications?
On 16 March the UK’s Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (although as regular readers will know, no longer telecoms) published a consultation on options …
Rise of social media means that successful converged services must appeal to early adopters
Today saw the launch of the sixth Olswang Convergence Survey: ‘Does it add up’. I may now be able to see rather more of the authors, …
European Commission refers Spain to European Court over ‘telecoms tax’ and tells them to speed up spectrum refarming implementation
Hola! As yesterday’s readers will know, I am currently in Madrid working from Olswang’s new Spanish office, soI thought it appropriate to give today’s post …