Roaming

National roaming regulation negatively impacts telecom investment and competition, shows a new international study by Strand Consult

Dear Colleague, The key challenge with mandated national roaming is that it is not necessarily clear to the customer on which network one is roaming. Thus, the operator’s incentive to…

Understanding the impact of national roaming on investments and competition

This report offers a critical review of the discussion of the impact of national roaming on investments and competition. The key challenge with mandated national roaming is that it is…

EU and BEREC celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution with increasing “nationalization” of the telecom industry

While free markets may have given rise to the mobile revolution and the commercialization of the Internet, many European politicians and telecom regulators believe that centralized government and control is…

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,…

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…

EU´s roaming regulation is a form of zero rating and probably violates net neutrality

One of the European Commission’s regulatory campaigns is to end mobile roaming charges. Every year just before Europe’s summer vacation, the Commission reminds people that they should be able to…

Europe’s Disconnected Continent: The next crisis hitting the EU will likely be digital—and long and expensive for society

There is much discussion about the EU telecoms package “Connected Continent: a single telecom market for growth and jobs”, and EU leaders are proud to have introduced rules on roaming…

EU Vote on Roaming Net Neutrality: Monitoring citizens’ mobile use is okay, but don’t touch the internet

The proposal adopted by EU parliament today will not solve the big problems there are in the EU when it comes to providing citizens with access to broadband infrastructure. See…

EU telecom regulation is the art of the possible. This week’s ITRE Committee vote kills net neutrality to save free roaming. But rest assured that net neutrality will be resurrected, once EU leaders have assured their re-election

While the EU Commission has pursued a lot of nice-sounding policies, it has avoided fundamental reforms that would reverse Europe from falling behind in the digital economy. When it comes…

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