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Commission maintains its softly, softly approach on net neutrality (whilst carrying big stick)

19 April 2011 by Rob Bratby

Net neutrality. A topic that stirs strong emotion and strident commentary that sometimes bears little resemblance to the underlying issues. The European Commission today published …

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Europe to review data retention rules

18 April 2011 by Rob Bratby

Readers will recall from the curious case of Mr Spitz that European telecoms operators already retain very large amounts of information about their customers. In an …

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European Commission tries to marshal stakeholders for World Radiocommunications Conference 2012

12 April 2011 by Rob Bratby

The European Commission published on 6 April a Communication on policy objectives for the International Telecommunications Union World Radiocommunications Conference 2012 (WRC 12). WRC 12 is the next quadrennial …

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European Commission refers Spain to European Court over ‘telecoms tax’ and tells them to speed up spectrum refarming implementation

16 March 2011 by Rob Bratby

Hola! As yesterday’s readers will know, I am currently in Madrid working from Olswang’s new Spanish office, soI thought it appropriate to give today’s post …

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Tighter regulation of mobile data roaming casts shadow over Barcelona from Brussels

16 February 2011 by Rob Bratby

With MWC 2011 still in full swing there are no shortage of topical issues to blog about, but whilst the mobile industry celebrates its achievements in …

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‘Illegal state aid’ challenge to tax levied on BT’s UK fibre network fails in European Court

8 February 2011 by Rob Bratby

In a decision dated 21 January, but only released this week, the EU’s General Court in Luxembourg has dismissed Vtesse’s appeal against a decision of …

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Cognitive radio: the road to mobile broadband delivery, or the path to anarchic interference?

24 January 2011 by Rob Bratby

For those who are not familiar with the term, cognitive radio (also sometimes described as white-space radio) describes a way of using radio spectrum in which …

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