UK telecoms regulation, Ofcom, General Conditions, numbering, spectrum, switching, enforcement
This article was published in November 2020 and reflects the regulatory position at that time. For current guidance on this topic, contact Bratby Law or see our latest insights. In documents published last week, the EU provided some welcome clarity on how organisations should address the invalidation of Privacy Shield as a basis for exporting…
This article was published in November 2020 and reflects the regulatory position at that time. For current guidance on this topic, contact Bratby Law or see our latest insights. On 10 November, the European Data Protection Board adopted a recommendation on supplemental measures which might be used to ensure compliance with the EU level of…
This article was published in October 2020 and reflects the regulatory position at that time. For current guidance on this topic, contact Bratby Law or see our latest insights. The Competition and Markets Authority, the UK Competition regulator, has said it will act against Facebook and Google if the government doesn’t set up a digital…
This article was published in September 2020 and reflects the regulatory position at that time. For current guidance on this topic, contact Bratby Law or see our latest insights. Are you sure you are a data processor? Introduction On 7 September 2020, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB), successor to the ‘article 29 working party’,…
This article was published in September 2020 and reflects the regulatory position at that time. For current guidance on this topic, contact Bratby Law or see our latest insights. On 7 September 2020, the UK’s Intellectual Property Office (IPO) published a call for views on the impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on the UK’s Intellectual…
This article was published in August 2020 and reflects the regulatory position at that time. For current guidance on this topic, contact Bratby Law or see our latest insights. On 25 August 2020, the European Commission proposed a regulation to set Europe-wide (lower) voice termination rates of 0.2 euro cents per minute for mobile voice…
This article was published in August 2020 and reflects the regulatory position at that time. For current guidance on this topic, contact Bratby Law or see our latest insights. The US has updated its rules to prevent Huawei’s access to commercially available chips that use US technology in a move that could sound the death…
This article was published in August 2020 and reflects the regulatory position at that time. For current guidance on this topic, contact Bratby Law or see our latest insights. On 10 August 2020, Following the European Court’s Schrems II judgment invalidating the US Privacy Shield (and calling into question the legal basis for other transatlantic…
This article was published in August 2020 and reflects the regulatory position at that time. For current guidance on this topic, contact Bratby Law or see our latest insights. On 3 August 2020, Ofcom confirmed that the UK’s 5G auction would go ahead, with bidding starting in January 2021. The auction is set to increase…
This article was published in July 2020 and reflects the regulatory position at that time. For current guidance on this topic, contact Bratby Law or see our latest insights. As previously discussed, the European Court of Justice’s recent Schrems II decision both (i) invalidated the US privacy shield; and (ii) threw into question alternative justifications…
This article was published in July 2020 and reflects the regulatory position at that time. For current guidance on this topic, contact Bratby Law or see our latest insights. On 22 July 2020, the UK government confirmed that it would largely implement the European Electronic Communications Code – the EU’s updated, harmonised regulatory framework for…
UK excludes Huawei from 5G and broadband networks: the UK Government has announced a U-turn on Huawei’s involvement in 5G networks, following a meeting of the National Security Council, that will delay 5G rollout by two to three years and increase costs by up to £2 billion.