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New UK foreign investment law to impact telecoms, digital and data transactions

24 May 202124 May 2021 by Rob Bratby

Summary By the end of 2021, many corporate transactions in the communications, data infrastructure, artificial intelligence, satellite and space technologies sectors (and some others) will …

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UK confirms it will mostly implement new EU telecoms law (despite Brexit)

27 July 202026 July 2020 by Rob Bratby

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 …

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Ofcom consults on revision of (half of) UK’s general authorisation conditions

3 August 2016 by Rob Bratby

As anticipated, Ofcom yesterday started a consultation on its plans to update the UK’s Conditions of General Entitlement i.e. the obligations placed on all telecoms operators in the UK that rely on the UK’s general authorisation.

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UK Government publishes Digital Economy Bill draft

5 July 2016 by Rob Bratby

The UK Government today published its first draft of the Digital Economy Bill. As expected, it contains provisions addressing (text taken from Government explanatory fact sheet):

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Europe consults on implementation of net neutrality

10 June 2016 by Rob Bratby

From 30 April 2016, Europe has been subject to net neutrality rules set out in the Connected Continent Regulation. However  those rules, set out in Articles 3 and 4 of the Regulation and reproduced below for easy reference, are framed at such a high level of abstraction as to be almost useless in assessing whether any particular practice is compliant or not.

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UK wayleave reform to create a £1bn windfall for telecoms operators

2 June 2016 by Rob Bratby

As discussed previously, perhaps one of the most important pieces of legislation for the telecoms sector proposed in the recent Queen’s speech is reform of the Electronic Communications Code, which deals with the telecoms industry’s access to land in the UK.

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Finally! Bidding starts in UK 4G auction

24 January 2013 by Rob Bratby

After many twists and turns (see here for background), the UK auction of spectrum in the 800 MHz and 2.6 GHz bands started yesterday. Ofcom announced …

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Singapore IDA contemplates reserving spectrum for new entrant as it consults on 4G auctions

12 April 2012 by Rob Bratby

In a consultation published earlier this week, Singapore’s Info-Communications Development Agency (or IDA) published a consultation on auctioning and reserving spectrum in Singapore for 4G (LTE …

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Mobile broadband at heart of Europe’s recently adopted Radio Spectrum Policy Programme as WRC 12 concludes in Geneva

20 February 2012 by Rob Bratby

The wheels of European legislation have slowly turned, and last week Europe adopted a five-year radio spectrum policy programme, at Parliament’s second reading under the …

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Will reforms to Cambodia’s telecoms regulatory regime reduce investment risk?

14 February 2012 by Rob Bratby

I have been experiencing an interesting shift in the way that I advise clients on risk as part of my move from Europe to Asia. …

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