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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 for telecoms – into UK law by 21 December 2020. This confirms the approach from that first announced in July 2019, providing welcome certainty, despite a change in the leader …

How will Ofcom’s role change in 2020?

3 July 2020 by Rob Bratby

On 30 April 2020 Ofcom published its work plan for 2020/21, which flags two new material upcoming changes in its role for 2020: becoming the regulator for on-line harms (aka dealing with ‘fake news’ on social media) enforcing the UK’s policy to limit/exclude Chinese network vendors from UK 5G network deployment. Ofcom explains: “…the UK …

Goodbye from Watching the Connectives

16 April 202030 March 2017 by Rob Bratby

To all my readers, thank you and goodbye. This blog is now an ex-blog.

European Network and Information Security Directive adopted to address cyber-threats

25 July 2016 by Rob Bratby

On 6 July 2016, the European Union (which for now includes the UK) adopted the Network and Information Security (or NIS) Directive. This imposes obligations on three sets of stakeholders: