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Breaking News: US telecom regulator FCC to vote on repeal of harmful net neutrality rules and restore free market Internet. EU falling further behind on broadband and 5G. Strand Consult Research Note

The Federal Communication Commission (FCC) announced today a propsoal to make a clean break from harmful, heavy-handed regulation of the Internet and in its place a restoration of the competition-oriented…

Net Neutrality in EU after 1 Year: Unintended Consequences for operators, content providers, and consumers

The EU’s net neutrality law has been in place for more than a year. Lacking real problems or bad actors to expose, the Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications…

16 Questions that BEREC President Sebastian Soriano won’t answer on net neutrality

During a recent speech entitled The Promises and Perils of Net Neutrality, BEREC President Sebastian Soriano stated his relief that the EU made a net neutrality law and that BEREC…

13 things the EU forgot to say about the new “Roam Like at Home” regulation starting June 15th and its impact to 500 million Europeans

Let’s acknowledge that the EU is in the midst of an historic crisis and an increasing number of Europeans are skeptical about European integration and EU leadership in Brussels. Over…

EU mobile roaming policy is a bomb under the MVNO industry and DG Comp’s merger conditions

Europeans have been dissatisfied with the EU government for years. Political parties skeptical of Brussels have had a resurgence. To combat its image problem with the voters, pro-European politicians have…

BREAKING NEWS: Based on the success of “roam like home” for mobile services, the European Union launches an effort to harmonize caffe latte prices in the EU.

Copenhagen 1 April 2017 It is not a secret that the EU has an image problem among many citizens in Europe, an issue demonstrated when Great Britain activated Article 50,…

10 regulatory challenges that impact telecom operators and regulators

The trends of convergence have been with us for decades. While communications, content, and computing have been converging–and even the regulators of these industries–the actual regulation has not converged, and…

EU’s new “Roam like home” model will hurt the mobile industry, restrict competition, reduce the range of mobile products, and increase prices in a number of countries.

EU is suffering the worst identity crisis since the union was created. Politicians and bureaucrats are desperate to demonstrate doing something good for the people. They thought cheap roaming was…

Roaming proposal shows that EU telecom policy is falling apart. 13 questions on roaming and fair use for European Commission

The revised EU proposal on roaming shows that the European Commission faces an existential crisis. It cannot succeed to make telecom policy that incentivizes new economic growth; it can only…

10 reasons not to trust BEREC on net neutrality. The EU process to create Open Internet guidelines lacks transparency, independence and credibility. See video of debate hosted by Slovenian telecom regulator which operators are suing over zero rating

The Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (BEREC) is collecting feedback on its proposed net neutrality guidelines through July 18. While BEREC may claim that it is taking public…

How will a BREXIT impact telecom regulation in Europe? John Strand: “It will be a regulatory nightmare for telecom operators.”

Leading up the referendum on June 23, there are many articles which attempt to analyze the economic and political consequences of whether the United Kingdom will BREXIT (British exit) or…

The EU’s net neutrality rules and BEREC’s implementation guidelines are a threat to Gay Mobile and other niche MVNOs that want differentiate themselves

Last week the Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (BEREC) presented its guidelines for national regulatory authorities to implement the EU’s Open Internet rules. While the EU may have…

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