Telecoms, data and payments transactions, M&A, JVs, SHAs, network-sharing, SaaS
This article was published in January 2011 and reflects the regulatory position at that time. For current guidance on this topic, contact Bratby Law or see our latest insights. Before Christmas, this blog flagged that last-mile fibre access (also know as next generation access, or NGA) was a commercial and regulatory issue that would be high on…
This article was published in January 2011 and reflects the regulatory position at that time. For current guidance on this topic, contact Bratby Law or see our latest insights. Whilst it is very tempting to blog about the new government’s reconsideration of the Bribery Act announced yesterday (and if you are not aware of this, you…
This article was published in January 2011 and reflects the regulatory position at that time. For current guidance on this topic, contact Bratby Law or see our latest insights. Have you ever used an international calling card? If you have, perhaps it was at a time when you didn’t have a fixed address, or were…
I get a regular selection of recent corporate finance deal activity summaries in my email. Last week, I got one from Regent. Their view was that with the exception of a dip in August, valuation multiples in the European TMT sector have steadily edged upwards over the year, with: price / earning at 16 (as…
Sadly I’ve not been in Las Vegas at CES, but remained at my desk in London reading the various updates. As the dust starts to settle it seems that tablets are the story of this year’s show. Not having had the opportunity to personally play with any shiny new toys, I am not in a…
This article was published in January 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 a lot of discussion this week of BT’s wholesale content connect product, so I thought it would be helpful to unpack the story…
You might think that outsourcing is relatively recent – dreamt up in the 1980s as a way for hardware manufacturers to move out of one-off box sales and into lovely long-term recurring revenue contracts or for industrial companies to move fixed assets off their balance sheets. However, the theoretical underpinnings can be traced back further…
I’m very excited to have had my first re-tweet, so today’s post develops the thought further. The retweet was of an economist article which, in contrast to the emerging consensus that traditional telephone calls are dead quotes a recent Ofcom international research report as evidence that whilst fixed line volumes are declining across the world,…
It’s Christmas eve and I have spent the morning digging out paths from snow. As a lawyer you might think that I would have had a well-developed intellectual property strategy for this blog but in a demonstration of why cobblers children are always the worst shod I have gone from ignoring it entirely, via knee-jerk…
Re-reading yesterday’s post, I hope it wasn’t too close to a law firm client update – that is not being the point of this blog. I thought I’d try to redress the balance today, and as I drove from London to Exmoor for Christmas, with the snow by the side of the road steadily increasing,…
This article was published in December 2010 and reflects the regulatory position at that time. For current guidance on this topic, contact Bratby Law or see our latest insights. Trying to write an interesting blog about the intersection of law, policy and regulation with telecoms and technology is somewhat challenging. Three posts in and I seem…
This article was published in December 2010 and reflects the regulatory position at that time. For current guidance on this topic, contact Bratby Law or see our latest insights. With my first post done, I thought it best to try and provide a little substantive content. Two years ago, I spent some time interviewing various…