In response to long-standing European concerns over high prices for international mobile roaming (IMR) within the European Union (EU), the European institutions have imposed progressively more rigorous Roaming Regulations, the most recent of which took effect in July 2012. The support for...

After having been developed for Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communication, standardised embedded SIM (eSIM) solutions are about to be launched in the telecommunications consumer segment. At this early market stage, various details of eSIM implementation have not been fixed yet. Our paper aims to...

There are some aspects of the European RFEC and its implementation today that could benefit from increased harmonisation; there are others in which substantial accommodation to local, national or regional circumstances and preferences is desirable or required.

Netzneutralität ist ein Schlagwort, welches in den Vereinigten Staaten in der vergangenenDekade aufgekommen ist und sich auf eine Reihe von Verhaltensweisen bezieht,die von einigen als wettbewerbsfeindlich eingestuft werden. Netzneutralität impliziert,dass alle IP Pakete im Prinzip mehr oder...

A number of initiatives are under way that will either greatly lower Mobile Termination Rates (MTRs ) – the wholesale payments from the originating network operator whose call initiates the call to the terminating network operator whose customer receives the call – or perhaps even eliminate...

In 2015 the European Commission adopted the Digital Single Market (DSM) strategy, aiming to establish common European data protection rules, reform telecoms rules and modernise copyright rules, among other goals. The authors in this Forum review the progress made thus far and explore the...