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ARCEP, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Norway, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, The Netherlands, UK / 20.11.2025

 To fight against phone number spoofing, European countries use various regulations. These regulations may relate to calls made by operators' domestic customers, or to calls received by these operators on their international interconnections. In the first case, the prosecution of a domestic customer with a...

5G, ARCEP, ARCEP - Numbering, ATIS, Authentication, FCC, France, Geographic numbers, IETF, Numbering, SIP, SIP Forum, STIR/Shaken, Traced Act, US Congress, USA / 20.06.2022

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...

5G, BEREC, European Commission, European Electronic Communications Code, European framework, Fibre, Local authorities, Public_Initiative_Network, Public_Service_Delegation / 22.02.2021

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...

ARCEP, ARCEP - Numbering, Assemblée Nationale, Call centres, Geographic numbers, Numbering / 15.02.2021

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...

ARCEP, Assemblée Nationale, Bloctel, Call centres, DGCCRF, Numbering, robocalls, Traced Act, Uncategorized, US Congress, USA / 23.07.2020

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...

ABE, ACPR, AFMM, Allemagne, BaFin, BNetzA, Cadre européen, Commission européenne, DSP2, EBA, Etablissement de paiement, European framework, FCA, France, Germany, payment, PRS, SVA, UK / 06.09.2019

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...