Search this blog
Top Posts and Pages
- Electronic Communications Code - access to public and private land
- Am I providing an electronic communications service or operating an electronic communications network?
- Telephone numbers
- UK electronic communications licences, authorisations and notifications
- Ofcom start consultation on technical licence conditions for 800 MHz and 2.6 GHz spectrum auctions
My tweets
Error: Twitter did not respond. Please wait a few minutes and refresh this page.
FT Telecoms
- An error has occurred; the feed is probably down. Try again later.
Total Telecom
FT Asia
- An error has occurred; the feed is probably down. Try again later.
Tech Crunch
Error: Twitter did not respond. Please wait a few minutes and refresh this page.
FT Technology
- An error has occurred; the feed is probably down. Try again later.
Ofcom tweets
Error: Twitter did not respond. Please wait a few minutes and refresh this page.
Silicon.com
- An error has occurred; the feed is probably down. Try again later.
Singapore IDA
- An error has occurred; the feed is probably down. Try again later.
Malaysia MCMC
- An error has occurred; the feed is probably down. Try again later.
European regulatory updates
- 7 EU-supported films awarded with 15 prizes at the European Film Awards 2019
- CONNECT University Session on "The Code of Practice on disinformation: social media and platforms accountability"
- Seven EU-funded films awarded 15 prizes at the European Film Awards 2019
- Commission opens in-depth investigation of Swedish market for wholesale local access to fibre networks
Blogroll
Court links
Group links
Regulator links
Category cloud
Tag cloud
- 3GPP Long Term Evolution
- Android
- Apple
- Auction
- broadband
- BT
- BT Group
- Burma
- CAT
- Cloud computing
- Communications Act 2003
- data retention
- Data Retention Directive
- DCR
- digital dividend
- Digital Economy Bill
- Dispute resolution
- DSAC
- Electronic Communications Code
- European Commission
- European Union
- Everything Everywhere
- Federal Communications Commission
- general conditions of entitlement
- India
- Initial public offering
- Intellectual property
- Interconnection
- Internet service provider
- IPad
- IPhone
- Jeremy Hunt
- Lte
- M&A
- MAS
- Microsoft
- Mobile banking
- Mobile broadband
- mobile money
- Mobile network operator
- Mobile payment
- Motorola
- net neutrality
- Network neutrality
- next generation access
- next generation broadband
- NFC
- Non-geographical telephone numbers in the United Kingdom
- Ofcom
- Olswang
- Openreach
- PhonepayPlus
- Premium-rate telephone number
- Radio spectrum
- Regulation
- Skype
- social media
- spectrum
- spectrum auction
- spectrum refarming
- TalkTalk
- Tax
- Telecommunication
- telecommunications
- Telecoms
- Television
- United States
- Virgin Media
- Vodafone
- white spaces
- Wimax
Monthly Archives: December 2010
Why network effects require ongoing interconnection rules (and other regulatory interventions)
I write today’s blog from sunny Switzerland. The news seems rather slow and I can’t bear to write a top ten lists of things that either happened in 2010 or to watch in 2011, so today’s post will try to … Continue reading
Posted in Government policy, Regulatory action, Technology, Telecoms
Tagged Interconnection, Network effects
2 Comments
Creative commons – open source for blogs
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 … Continue reading
Broadband aid (do they know it’s Christmas)
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 … Continue reading
Posted in ASEAN, Broadband, Commercial activity, Government policy, Mobile, Regulatory action, Telecoms
Tagged Africa, Lte, Mobile broadband, spectrum, Wimax
1 Comment
Net neutrality: religious or secular war?
Some years ago I was reading one of those very thought provoking articles in the end of year bumper edition of the Economist. The gist of the article was that you could compare societies along different dimensions and depending on … Continue reading
Posted in Broadband, EU, Government policy, Regulatory action, Telecoms, US
Tagged FCC, net neutrality, Ofcom, open internet
2 Comments
(Digital and mobile) money, money, money
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 to be relying on references to popular culture to pep things up – this time 1970s … Continue reading
Posted in Commercial activity, EU, Government policy, Mobile, Telecoms, UK, US
Tagged credit cards, digital money, e-money, mobile money, money, payment, payment services directive
2 Comments
Watching the connectives?
First post. It feels slightly intimidating, so I thought that describing the thought process that has brought me here and what I want to achieve would be a good start. I turned 40 this year and it is the mark of a … Continue reading
Posted in Technology, Telecoms
1 Comment