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Network Neutrality has emerged as a key influential factor of telecommunications regulation in recent years, due to primarily the equivocal practices applied by major telecoms operators to transit and terminating network data streams. The observation I wish to bring to the fore with this post is simple and straight forward and relates to the difference […]
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The European Commission issued on Monday 20/9/2010 the new (and final) Recommendation on regulated access to Next Generation Access Networks [C(2010)6223]. Also, the Commission circulated the related communication C(2010)472 with title “European Broadband: investing in digitally driven growth”. The two documents elaborate and explain the vision and the implementation strategy envisaged by the European Commission […]
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A few days ago I stumbled upon another interesting blog about regulation and policy in EU and Greece. Panos Korkovelos runs the Electronic Communications Regulation Update that tracks the most significant legal developments in the field of electronic communications. The aim is to cover to a larger extent the European and especially the Greek legal […]
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The Greek watchdog asked for comments from the operators regarding the new broadband marketing campaign of OTE. The incumbent came forward last week with an upgrade plan to reduce prices on the high-end of its fixed broadband portfolio. More specifically OTE plans the following: Upgrade 2Mbps/256k to 2Mbps/512k at no additional cost Upgrade 8Mbps/1Mbps to […]
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Yesterday, European Court of Justice (EJC) added the latest chapter in the surreal dispute [1] between DT and german regulator on the one side and the European Commission on the other about the effective grant of regulation holidays to the german incumbent. It all started back in the 2006 when the german watchdog took the […]
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Last week the regulators of the world united (sic) in a 3 days compound event [the 1-day Global Industry Leaders’ Forum (GILF) and the 2-day annual Global Symposium for Regulators (GSR)] and discussed contemporary topics of telecommunications regulation such as facilitating ICT investments, Universal Service Plans and Next-Generation Networks. Fellow fiber-ring member Rudolf van der […]
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I was thinking of a way to celebrate One Web Day. A couple suggestions for a collaborative activity failed thunderously (lack of time and bad schedule), so I decided to go after a friend’s suggestion to put together a short note arguing why a government (in our case the Greek government) should invest/fund in FTTH […]
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The INFOSTRAG group organizes their 5th consecutive annual seminar in Syros. This year the seminar is entitled “Leveraging on ICT and Renewable Energy Sources for the Development of Islands and Remote Areas” and I am invited to discuss the policy implications of municipal involvement in NGA. The seminar is planned for next weekend 9-12/7/2009. Should […]
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A few days ago I came across the work of Alexandre de Streel on EU telecommunications regulation, published in the latest issue of the Journal of Telecommunications Policy. In light of the contemporary review of EU regulatory framework, the author attempts a review of the EU policy in electronic communications and provides some powerful insight. […]
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Joeri inform us on his blog in FTTH Council Europe web site about the Council’s comments on the recent public consultation on Next Generation Access networks issued by the Commission in October. FTTH Council has made public the document which can be downloaded here . I would like to point out a couple of things […]
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