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BEREC, Deutsche Telekom, ECTA, European Commission, European framework, Fibre, FttH Council Europe, Orange, Telefonica, WACC / 28.01.2019

How to determine the regulated WACC in European telecoms?

What is WACC? The Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC) is a financial analysis tool used to compare a firm’s investments with the cost of the capital raised by the firm to finance these investments. A core concept of the Capital Asset Pricing Model, WACC is used to provide a...

BEREC, European Commission, European Electronic Communications Code, European framework, Fibre, Uncategorized / 21.01.2019

The new European Electronic Communications Code marks the rise of BEREC, the common body of national regulators

From several Directives to one Code On 17 December, two texts were published in the Official Journal of the European Union, revising the regulatory framework for electronic communications in Europe. The four Directives comprising this framework (Framework Directive, Authorizations Directive, Access Directive and Universal Service and Consumer Rights Directive) have...

Geographic numbers, Numbering, Ofcom, PRS / 14.01.2019

How do British people perceive phone numbers?

Ofcom, the UK's telecoms regulator, recently published a qualitative study of the perception of telephone numbers by a representative sample of the British population. Main conclusions of the study and comments on their relevance to France Fixed telephony and geographic numbers, a matter for older people 1. Fixed telephony only...

DGCCRF, PRS / 07.01.2019

The Naegelen bill and telephone marketing

What did the National Assembly vote? On December 6, 2018, by 79 votes to 1, the French National Assembly voted the bill proposed by MP Christophe Naegelen, related to the rules of telephone marketing and to the fight against fraudulent calls. After our post of December 17 devoted to...

DGCCRF, PRS / 17.12.2018

A step forward in the fight against fraudulent calls

On December 6, 2018, after 3 hours and 50 minutes of an intense debate, the members of the French Parliament, by 79 votes (representing almost all parties) against 1, adopted the bill of the UDI MP Christophe Naegelen, called Naegelen Bill, relating to the supervision of telephone marketing and...

Security / 12.11.2018

There is a solution to the issue of unsolicited calls and phone number spoofing!

Confidence in the phone number has been dragged to a new low with the surge of unsolicited phone calls and of spoofed phone numbers. French telecom regulator ARCEP has recently taken a couple of measures on this issue but this boils down to letting operators...

ARCEP - Numbering / 22.10.2018

7 Miscellaneous measures

7.1 General remark ARCEP decision #18-0881 is the first complete overhaul of the numbering plan and its management rules since 2005. The notion of interpersonal numbers disappears in favor of territorial numbers, which includes interpersonal and M2M numbers. 7.2 Reallocation time (or quarantine duration) of a number 7.2.1 Measures 1.2.2019:...

ARCEP - Numbering / 15.10.2018

6. Changes to Codes and Prefixes

6.1 Recasting of the MCC-MNC (Mobile Country Code - Mobile Network Code) 6.1.1 Measures 1.8.2018: to support the implementation of LTE technology by other types of networks than publicly available mobile networks - independent networks such as PPDR (Public Protection and Disaster Relief) or PMR (Professional Mobile...

ARCEP - Numbering / 08.10.2018

5. Measures specific to new mobile uses

5.1 Explicit authorization to send SMS and MMS to and from fixed numbers 5.1.1 measures 1.8.2018: ARCEP decision #18-0881 no longer limits the use of geographic, non-geographic numbers, free-of-charge and standard rate short numbers and special numbers to voice services only, but explicitly mentions SMS / MMS messaging services. The...

ARCEP - Numbering / 01.10.2018

4. Supervision of automated mass calls

4.1 Measures Prohibition, effective August 1, 2019, of using 10-digit geographic, non-geographic and mobile numbers as the calling line identification (CLI) of calls or SMS / MMS mass-produced by an automated system In order to enhance user confidence in the calls and messages they receive and to enable...

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