Author: ETC

03 Apr

Posted at 17:56h in 5G, Cadre européen, European Electronic Communications Code, European framework, Fibre, France, Local authorities, Orange, Public_Initiative_Network, Public_Service_Delegation, Sénat

On March 28, 2019, during a conference of the Ecoter Mission in Paris, was presented the White Paper "Telecoms rights of way for local authorities", produced by the firms Strategic Scout and Parme Avocats for the Banque des Territoires, a subsidiary of the Caisse des Dépôts. Why this White Paper? In...

18 Mar

Posted at 18:12h in AFMM, Assemblée Nationale, Bloctel, Call centres, DGCCRF, Numbering, PRS, Public_Service_Delegation, Sénat

Deeply reworked by the Senate, the bill proposed by MP Christophe Naegelen, on telephone marketing and fraudulent calls, will now come back in second reading to the National Assembly: A new Article 1A of the bill as voted by the Senate specifies the terms of registration (by dematerialized,...

13 Feb

Posted at 15:37h in 5G, 700_MHz, AGCOM, Allemagne, ARCEP, BNetzA, Deutsche_Telekom, Germany, Italy, Kabel_Deutschland, spectrum, Switzerland, Unitymedia, Vodafone

From 2018 to 2020, European states are allocating and re-allocating radio spectrum to mobile operators that are necessary to deploy 5G. Originally, radio spectrum was allocated to operators for a given technology. Now, operators are free to use it with the technology of their choice....

05 Feb

Posted at 11:25h in ARCEP, AVICCA, BEREC, Convergence, Coriolis, DSP, ELAN, Fibre, FttH, FVNO, Mégalis, MVNO, Orange, Public_Initiative_Network, Public_Service_Delegation, THD_Bretagne

January 29, 2019: ARCEP publishes a dispute settlement between Coriolis and Mégalis / THD Bretagne One of the roles of ARCEP, regulator of telecoms in France, is to settle disputes between operators in France, relating to wholesale access and interconnection. Dispute settlement is considered a court of first instance...

28 Jan

Posted at 17:29h in BEREC, Deutsche Telekom, ECTA, European Commission, European framework, Fibre, FttH Council Europe, Orange, Telefonica, WACC

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...

21 Jan

Posted at 21:07h in BEREC, European Commission, European Electronic Communications Code, European framework, Fibre, Uncategorized

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...

14 Jan

Posted at 20:58h in Geographic numbers, Numbering, Ofcom, PRS

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...

07 Jan

Posted at 18:14h in DGCCRF, PRS

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...

17 Dec

Posted at 19:39h in DGCCRF, PRS

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...