Internet regulation: building consumer trust?
Today’s FT article by Vittorio Colao, CEO of Vodafone, highlights the importance of regulation for all the players in the on-line ecosystem – those building the pipes …
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Another £50 million for rural broadband in UK – a drop in the ocean?
Fifty million pounds is a very large amount of money, and it was great to read last week’s DCMS announcement that it would be made …
Mobile banking and payment: what consumers really want?
Mobile banking and payment is a recurrent theme for this blog. I have previously posted on rumours that the iPhone 5 might contain NFC technology, and mused on …
Significance of mobile data growth
Whilst this blog often picks up on topical news, sometimes I am prompted to reflect on some of the meta-themes that provide the context for day-to-day news. …
BT accounts reveal fear of retrospective price adjustments
BT announced its annual results today. Press comment focused on BT’s profit growth and the reduction in their pension deficit. However, both of those stories …
Microsoft buys Skype: comparison with eBay deal logic
The big story yesterday was the acquisition of Skype by Microsoft for $8.5 billion. It was only 6 years ago that eBay bought Skype for …
Lenders over-exposed to real estate move into TMT
I was lucky enough to chair Olswang’s semi-annual CPD catch-up day for in-house lawyers today. It was a very interesting set of talks (for those who are …
Setting fixed termination rates for all UK operators benchmarked to BT’s cost-orientated termination rates appropriate SMP remedy say Ofcom
It is a logical quirk of the European telecoms regulatory system that the provision of call termination is a regulated activity for all Communications Providers …
RIM and Google compete to acquire Nortel’s patents
Readers with long memories will remember Nortel’s glory days of the 1990s, when it expanded rapidly by supplying equipment on the back of significant investment in competitive telecoms …
Fujitsu announces UK FTTH roll-out to 5 million homes
In today’s connected world a lot of what passes for news is more of a rolling update – a snippet of new information that is …