If you’ve been following the French telecom scene these last few days, you can’t have missed the turmoil that the regulator’s latest announcement led to. For those who missed it, the French telecom regulatory authority -the ARCEP- published on January
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No closer to a Digital Single Market
The Digital Single Market (DSM) has been hailed as one of the great tasks of the Juncker commission. As usual with the commission, the goals as expressed are lofty:
- Give consumers better access to digital goods across Europe;
- Create the
Public Investment in Access Drives Fixed Broadband Subscriptions
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Public investment in backbone drives prices down
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Android is not Windows
The European Commission declared today that it had sent a Statement of Objections to Google and its parent company Alphabet regarding the Android OS, accusing the Mountain View firm of abusing its dominant position by imposing restrictions on OEMs and
The Impact of Market Structure on Broadband Profitability
In the last few years, Diffraction Analysis has been vocal about the virtues of structural separation. It’s not because we’re getting paid to push that view (we’re not, sadly for us) or because we think vertically integrated markets are unfair
Has Ofcom Gone Far Enough in Regulating Openreach ?
Last week Ofcom finally released its long awaited Strategic Review of Digital Communications. It was this document that could have formed the basis for structural separation. It did not.
As I argued a number of times, structural separation
The Infrastructure Solution to the Broadband Problem
The FTTH Council Europe conference last week in Luxembourg was a good edition (although I definitely think that the Council’s strategy of going for smaller and smaller hosting cities is misguided) with a number of topics that resonated with me.
Ending the UK Status Quo
I have already expressed here all the reasons why I think Structural Separation would be a good thing for the UK infrastructure, for competition and for BT itself. If you haven’t read my views on this, you can watch this
Regulatory Certainty Works
When I was in London a few weeks ago to talk about Structural Separation, the New Zealand example was of course very much on display. The increase in compounded shareholder value of the two companies post-separation (Chorus and Spark) is