In Europa wurden in den letzten Jahren verschiedene Programme zur nachfrageorientierten Förderung mit unterschiedlichen Zielsetzungen, Ausrichtungen und Ausgestaltungen implementiert. Auch die im Januar veröffentlichten Leitlinien der EU-Kommission zur Breitbandförderung nehmen erstmals Bezug...

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...

On 25 November 2015, the European Union enacted new rules for international mobile roaming (IMR) under Regulation 2015/2120, which seeks to implement a Roam Like at Home (RLAH) regime among the member states of the European Union. Questions remain, however, as to whether it is possible to...

A European debate over measures ostensibly to fully achieve a single market for electronic communications across the EU was brought to a head by the European Commission's 2013 proposed Telecoms Single Market (TSM) legislative package. The Commission apparently hoped to achieve a Single European...

A European debate over measures ostensibly to fully achieve a single market for electronic communications across the EU was brought to a head by the European Commission's 2013 proposed Telecoms Single Market (TSM) legislative package. The Commission apparently hoped to achieve a Single European...

Vertical separation is increasingly recognised as a means of ensuring competitive non-discrimination in various network industries, and in the telecommunications market in particular. The implementation of separation can be more or less intrusive depending on the specific implementation...

A recent U.S. Court of Appeals decision, Comcast vs. FCC, calls into question the FCC’s authority to implement two of the most important policies of the Obama Administration, and of the Federal Communications Commission under the leadership of Chairman Julius Genachowski: • The...

The emergence of Next Generation Networks (NGNs) raises profound challenges for regulators everywhere. Different regulatory authorities have approached these problems in strikingly different ways, depending in part on the overall regulatory milieu in which they operate, and in part on the nature...