Tag archive: telecoms
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Competition in the Local Loop: Unbundling or Unbungling?
Telecoms Infotech Forum (TIF) Briefing Paper, July 2003.
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.