Telecoms, data and payments transactions, M&A, JVs, SHAs, network-sharing, SaaS
This article was published in May 2011 and reflects the regulatory position at that time. For current guidance on this topic, contact Bratby Law or see our latest insights. 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 interested…
This article was published in April 2011 and reflects the regulatory position at that time. For current guidance on this topic, contact Bratby Law or see our latest insights. 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 –…
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 networks unleashed by the first wave of telecoms market liberalisation. It was badly hit by the dot.com crash, but managed to struggle through the noughties before filing for creditor protection…
This article was published in April 2011 and reflects the regulatory position at that time. For current guidance on this topic, contact Bratby Law or see our latest insights. 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 not…
This article was published in April 2011 and reflects the regulatory position at that time. For current guidance on this topic, contact Bratby Law or see our latest insights. Whilst the Watcher was on holiday, the UK’s Department for Energy and Climate Change published a series of documents on 30 March: Smart Metering Implementation Programme:…
This article was published in March 2011 and reflects the regulatory position at that time. For current guidance on this topic, contact Bratby Law or see our latest insights. 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 forthcoming…
This article was published in March 2011 and reflects the regulatory position at that time. For current guidance on this topic, contact Bratby Law or see our latest insights. 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 to…
This article was published in March 2011 and reflects the regulatory position at that time. For current guidance on this topic, contact Bratby Law or see our latest insights. 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: The…
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. Some of his partners spent yesterday live blogging and tweeting about the budget (@olswang, #budget 11). Whilst this blog tends to focus on some of the larger technology and telecoms companies,…
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 regulatory approval, and I’ll be watching with interest as the other US mobile networks seek to gain advantage through the regulatory process. AT&T is the second largest US network and…
This article was published in March 2011 and reflects the regulatory position at that time. For current guidance on this topic, contact Bratby Law or see our latest insights. 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 to…
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, John Enser and Matt Phillips, as its preparation has consumed their every waking hour over the last few months. They carried out the first Convergence Survey back in 2005. Not…