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
Making Broadband Policy More Effective
When you’ve been working on broadband policy as long as I have, you know one thing for sure: while everyone agrees that broadband policy is necessary, as soon as you start looking at what it should be, everyone disagrees.
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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
Time to think about switching that copper off?
Earlier this week, a short article on Total Telecom was widely distributed in broadband circles. Entitled Portugal Telecom Selling Off Its Copper it outlines how, now that Portugal Telecom has reached a critical mass of fiber to the home customers,
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.
Solutions for Long Term Infrastructure Investment
Back in November I participated in an event in London organised by the Reform Think Tank about the future of broadband in Britain and, in particular, the debate around structural separation. The videos were uploaded by Reform, but unfortunately
Level Playing Field and the Scope of Regulatory Oversight
After attacking Net Neutrality head on for years, European Telcos over the last few months have shifted message to something a little bit different, namely the “level playing field” argument. The essence of the argument seems to be that since