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Access Alert: What the abolition of Mexico’s telecoms and competition regulators means and what to do next

Mexico’s Congress has approved the constitutional reform for the elimination of the Federal Institute of Telecommunications (IFT) and the Federal...

25 Nov 2024 Opinion
Access Alert: What the abolition of Mexico’s telecoms and competition regulators means and what to do next
Access Alert: Mexico’s telecommunications and competition authorities set to be dissolved

Access Alert: Mexico’s telecommunications and competition authorities set to be dissolved

Overview On 13 October, Deputy Ricardo Monreal, leader of the ruling Morena party, announced that reforms to eliminate the Federal...

15 Oct 2024 Opinion
Access Alert: Mexico presses ahead with dissolution of telecoms regulator

Access Alert: Mexico presses ahead with dissolution of telecoms regulator

Mexico is pushing forward with a constitutional reform package that proposes the extinction of IFT and Cofece, the autonomous bodies...

16 Sep 2024 Opinion
Access Alert: Colombian telecoms industry faces shakeup with potential Millicom-Telefonica merger

Access Alert: Colombian telecoms industry faces shakeup with potential Millicom-Telefonica merger

Colombia’s telecoms market has sparked considerable attention involving two of the country’s biggest telcos in recent days, with Millicom bidding...

8 Aug 2024 Opinion
Access Alert: US federal court finds Universal Service Fund unconstitutional

Access Alert: US federal court finds Universal Service Fund unconstitutional

On 24 July, the US Circuit Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled in Consumers’ Research v. FCC that...

1 Aug 2024 Opinion
Tech Policy Trends 2024: The 6G hope – will it cost operators less than 5G?

Tech Policy Trends 2024: The 6G hope – will it cost operators less than 5G?

Predicting the emergence of 6G once seemed a simple task based on previous generations of cellular technology. However, with efficiency...

14 Mar 2024 Opinion
Access Alert: Achieving the 5G promised land

Access Alert: Achieving the 5G promised land

Haga clic aquí para leer este publicación en Español. In recent weeks, Argentina and Colombia, two of Latin America’s biggest...

16 Nov 2023 Opinion
Wi-Fi is the best way to address capacity demands

Wi-Fi is the best way to address capacity demands

Introduction This is my third and final blog on the subject of mobile industry profitability and the demands for subsidisation...

15 Jun 2023 Opinion
Why the concern about telecom operator finances?

Why the concern about telecom operator finances?

Introduction There have been calls over the last few months for a “fair share tax” – an argument that the...

7 Jun 2023 Opinion
Independent Thinkers on Digital | Are Low Rates of Return Really a Problem for Mobile Operators?

Independent Thinkers on Digital | Are Low Rates of Return Really a Problem for Mobile Operators?

Unpacking the Telecom Industry: Debating Returns on Investment and Market Signals with Richard Feasey William has a fascinating discussion with...

23 Feb 2023 Opinion
Access Alert | New Judgments from the Court of Justice of the European Union on Data Retention by Providers of Electronic Communications

Access Alert | New Judgments from the Court of Justice of the European Union on Data Retention by Providers of Electronic Communications

The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) issued two judgments on 20 September 2022 on the legal framework...

11 Oct 2022 Opinion
TRPC Managing Director Lim May-Ann interviewed on CNA, 5 Aug “Dispute resolution platform on cards for consumers in tussle with telcos”

TRPC Managing Director Lim May-Ann interviewed on CNA, 5 Aug “Dispute resolution platform on cards for consumers in tussle with telcos”

Dispute resolution platform on cards for consumers in tussle with telcos SINGAPORE: The Ministry of Communications and Information (MCI) on...

5 Aug 2016 Reports
Competition in the Local Loop: Unbundling or Unbungling?

Competition in the Local Loop: Unbundling or Unbungling?

Telecoms Infotech Forum (TIF) Briefing Paper, July 2003.

30 Jun 2003 Reports
China’s Telecoms and IT Sectors: Planning and the WTO?

China’s Telecoms and IT Sectors: Planning and the WTO?

Working Paper by John Ure, Director of the Telecommunications Research Project at the University of Hong Kong.

18 Apr 2002 Reports