Author: ETC

11 Apr Number authentication – Key success factors
in the USA, Canada, France and the UK. – 20240408

Posted at 16:59h in ARCEP, Authentication, Canada, CRTC, FCC, France, Ofcom, robocalls, SIP, STIR/Shaken, Traced Act, UK, USA

Four years ago, I published a post arguing that the US approach to number authentication was more likely to succeed than the French approach, because the US law was much more precise than the French law, its application was better monitored by the legislator and...

20 Jun Number Authentication: What is the situation in the US? In France?

Posted at 09:16h in 5G, ARCEP, ARCEP - Numbering, ATIS, Authentication, FCC, France, Geographic numbers, IETF, Numbering, SIP, SIP Forum, STIR/Shaken, Traced Act, US Congress, USA

1 Introduction Two and a half years ago, the United States passed the TRACED Act[1] , which mandates the authentication of telephone numbers and therefore the use of STIR/Shaken technology for Voice over IP (VoIP). Two years ago, France adopted the Naegelen law, which makes number...

22 Feb When geography structures telecoms regulation

Posted at 14:25h in 5G, BEREC, European Commission, European Electronic Communications Code, European framework, Fibre, Local authorities, Public_Initiative_Network, Public_Service_Delegation

Since the 1990s, the regulatory model that has prevailed in Europe has been that of competition. Competition at the level of services, but also at the level of infrastructure, whenever possible. This model is adapted to large cities but becomes less and less relevant when...

15 Feb French Council of State misses an opportunity to promote better cooperation between ARCEP and Ministry in charge of consumer affairs

Posted at 10:45h in ARCEP, ARCEP - Numbering, Assemblée Nationale, Call centres, Geographic numbers, Numbering

A decision of the Council of State has just ruled in favour of the French association for customer relations (AFRC) and the union of contact centre professionals (SP2C) who accused ARCEP of restricting direct sales calls using the predictive numbering to certain numbering ranges. The...

04 Feb Back to BEREC

Posted at 13:52h in ARCEP, BEREC, European Electronic Communications Code, European framework

BEREC, the Body of European Regulators of Electronic Communications, was instructed by the directive, establishing the European Code of Electronic Communications, and by the regulation updating its functions, to publish, in 2019 and 2020, eleven guideline documents, intended to specify the scope of the provisions...

23 Jul The French Naegelen law under the light of the American Traced Act

Posted at 13:11h in ARCEP, Assemblée Nationale, Bloctel, Call centres, DGCCRF, Numbering, robocalls, Traced Act, Uncategorized, US Congress, USA

Synthesis As the bill on the supervision of telephone marketing and the fight against fraudulent calls (known as the Naegelen legislative proposal) has been voted in identical terms by the two chambers of the French Parliament, it is worth evaluating this text, without questioning the will of the legislator, but...

01 Oct French OTT tax: pass-through or not?

Posted at 09:22h in Assemblée Nationale, Convergence, European Commission, European framework, France, G20, OECD, OTT, Sénat, Taxation

By the law n ° 2019-759 of July 24, 2019[1], the French Republic has created a tax on some digital services, namely the intermediation between sellers and buyers on the internet and the targeted advertising based on data provided by the internet user. On the contrary, the direct sales...

06 Sep Revolution in the PRS microcosm: premium rate service operators become payment institutions

Posted at 20:10h in ABE, ACPR, AFMM, Allemagne, BaFin, BNetzA, Cadre européen, Commission européenne, DSP2, EBA, Etablissement de paiement, European framework, FCA, France, Germany, payment, PRS, SVA, UK

On September 6, 2019, the European Banking Authority decided that all intermediaries between local loop operators and premium-rate service providers (ie transit operators and PRS operators) are not covered by the telecom exception provided for in Article 3i of the Second European Payment Services Directive (Directive 2015/2366/EC, or PSD2). In...

16 Apr Ofcom wants to restore trust in phone numbers through a common numbering base

Posted at 10:22h in ARCEP, ARCEP - Numbering, Numbering, Ofcom, UK

On April 11, 2019, Britain's telecoms regulator Ofcom has published three public consultations, open until June 6, on the future of telephony in the United Kingdom, in order to: Promote trust in phone numbers,Change the telephone numbering plan,Reflect on the future of interconnection and call termination. We will return to numbering and...

08 Apr Connected Vehicles in Europe– The Transport Committee of the European Parliament does not endorse WiFi to the detriment of 5G

Posted at 16:17h in 5G, European Commission, European framework, France, Germany, spectrum, WiFi

5G NR based C-V2X The move from 4G to 5G has been triggered by the diverging necessities of providing ever increasing downstream bandwidth to our smartphones and simultaneously accommodating millions and soon billions of widgets of the Internet of Things. Hence NR, a New Radio protocol...