This article was published in February 2012 and reflects the regulatory position at that time. For current guidance on this topic, contact Bratby Law or see our latest insights. With the launch party of Olswang Asia happening tonight, I have been musing on the economic outlook for Asia in 2012 and beyond. At a very micro-level I…
This article was published in February 2012 and reflects the regulatory position at that time. For current guidance on this topic, contact Bratby Law or see our latest insights. 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 co-decision…
This article was published in February 2012 and reflects the regulatory position at that time. For current guidance on this topic, contact Bratby Law or see our latest insights. 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. Almost…
This article was published in February 2012 and reflects the regulatory position at that time. For current guidance on this topic, contact Bratby Law or see our latest insights. Following its initial consultation, Ofcom recently issued its assessment of future mobile competition and revised proposals for the auction of 800 MHz and 2.6 GHz spectrum…
This article was published in January 2012 and reflects the regulatory position at that time. For current guidance on this topic, contact Bratby Law or see our latest insights. Today’s blog post is courtesy of my friends and colleagues Clive Gringras and Claire Walker who have published a helpful guide to the new European Data Protection proposals….
This article was published in January 2012 and reflects the regulatory position at that time. For current guidance on this topic, contact Bratby Law or see our latest insights. The judgement of India’s Supreme Court on 20 Jan in the Vodafone tax case, removes (at least for now) some of country-specific risk that has been…
This article was published in December 2011 and reflects the regulatory position at that time. For current guidance on this topic, contact Bratby Law or see our latest insights. Apologies to readers for the long hiatus between recent blog posts. With hindsight (and English understatement), I may have rather underestimated the time that would be…
Having recently relocated to Singapore to set up my firm’s first office in Asia, I have been rather quiet on the blogging front recently. This post serves as something of a reboot – the blog will continue with its theme of the intersection of business, law and regulation in the telecoms and technology sectors but…
Mobile payment is a topic close to my heart, so I am delighted to be joining a distinguished panel at the International Bar Association‘s annual conference in Dubai this afternoon to discuss developments in mobile payment from a comparative perspective. The session is being run jointly by the communications, banking and technology committees of the IBA…
This article was published in October 2011 and reflects the regulatory position at that time. For current guidance on this topic, contact Bratby Law or see our latest insights. On 7 October Ofcom announced that the already much delayed 800 MHz and 2.6 GHz Uk spectrum auctions would be delayed. This follows on from prior delays,…
This article was published in September 2011 and reflects the regulatory position at that time. For current guidance on this topic, contact Bratby Law or see our latest insights. Following consultation on its earlier proposals, last week Ofcom confirmed that it would update General Condition 9 so as to prohibit contracts that automatically renew at…
This article was published in September 2011 and reflects the regulatory position at that time. For current guidance on this topic, contact Bratby Law or see our latest insights. On 1 September 2011, Ofcom published a statement outlining its intention to permit the use of white space spectrum in some of the the bands currently…