Submarine Cable Map

Submarine Cable Map:

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ECJ confirms that special (lower) tax on France Télécom was state aid

“to tax him with injustice”*: ECJ confirms that special (lower) tax on France Télécom was state aid : contentandcarrier:

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National judges' implementation seminar 28 November

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COCOM agenda for 46th Meeting

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Commission presses 16 Member States to implement new EU telecoms rules

EUROPA - Press Releases - Digital Agenda: Commission presses 16 Member States to implement new EU telecoms rules:

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Implementation & Enforcement - Country reports

European Commission - Information Society - Telecommunications, Communications and Services - Implementation & Enforcement - Country by country tables and reports:

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Spain and Germany: margin squeeze remedies and regulatory holidays

Spain: Telefonica in 2008 lost a margin squeeze case, and received a record fine - much higher than Deutsche Telekom (Germany) and France Telecom-Wanadoo (France). Is this justified? The CJEU upheld the DT fine in October 2010.
Germany: the regulator granted DT a regulatory holiday to deploy its VDSL network - was this unfair on competitors? Did it fragment the European market? The CJEU thought so.

Updated Infringement proccedings

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Infringement procedures on telecoms

eCommunications: Infringement procedures | Europa - Information Society:

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Commission requests Greece to implement rules to facilitate telecom networks roll-out

EUROPA - Press Releases - Digital Agenda: Commission requests Greece to implement rules to facilitate telecom networks roll-out:

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UK to auction 800 MHz and 2.6 GHz spectrum in 2012 | Watching the Connectives

UK to auction 800 MHz and 2.6 GHz spectrum in 2012 | Watching the Connectives:

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ECTA / REPORTS / WIK Studies / WIK Study - Apr 2011

ECTA / REPORTS / WIK Studies / WIK Study - Apr 2011:

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UK delays 800 MHz and 2.6 GHz spectrum auctions until late 2012 | Watching the Connectives

UK delays 800 MHz and 2.6 GHz spectrum auctions until late 2012 | Watching the Connectives:

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Clearest basic explanation of transition from copper to fibre?

Very clear IDC New Zealand presentation - for we lawyers, not technologists...

How a digital telephone exchange works

An illustrated guide!

Case studies in UK fibre-to-the-curb broadband

With deadlines of 2015, Cornwall used European money and BT partnership with 138,000km of fibre, Cambridgeshire thinks it can get £42m private investment within the total £70m budget (£8m from central government) and offer about 90% coverage of ADSL2+ or faster technology. Good luck to both!

Romania implementation of 2002 Directive

The new European framework for electronic communications

UK Telecoms at a glance...

Here and here (in detail).

TeleFrieden: Wireless Cost Per Minute and Consumer Behavior

TeleFrieden: Wireless Cost Per Minute and Consumer Behavior: " It has become a largely unquestioned “fact” that U.S. wireless consumers enjoy remarkably low per minute costs rivaling what the ..."

Rural wholesale broadband price drops

Ofcom in the UK has announced new price cuts of 12% below inflation for wholesale BT products in the 11% of the UK with absolutely no retail competition. They must be desperately hoping that this results in some kind of competition to reduce the need for government funding for higher speed services.