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The court repealed the Austrian regulator’s decision of 2022 to deregulate the wholesale markets for local access (market 1/2020) and central access (market 3b/2014). For the time being, the markets are regulated again under market analysis decisions adopted in 2017. The judgment raises questions to what extent a regulator is allowed to participate in negotiations between operators on wholesale offers.
The minimum required broadband speed will increase from the current 25 Mbps download/5 Mbps upload to 300 Mbps download/150 Mbps upload. Only connections offering at least 1 Gbps download/500 Mbps upload will be allowed to be advertised as ultra-broadband services.
BEREC, the assembly of European national telecoms regulators, welcomed the symmetric access rules in the proposed Digital Networks Act, in particular the clarification that NRAs may intervene on their own initiative where market structures require symmetric intervention. But BEREC argued that the rules should be further strengthened and simplified, notably by replacing the list of exemptions to symmetric measures with a simpler requirement to take proportionality into account.
The US telecoms regulator, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), voted to adopt the “Space Modernization for the 21st Century” Report and Order. This rulemaking revoked the FCC’s legacy satellite and earth station rules to create a new regime that will better align FCC rules with the nature of today’s commercial space economy. However, the rules maintain the FCC’s oversight of core regulatory concerns, such as spectrum management, harmful interference, national security, and orbital debris.
EU member states gave themselves considerable flexibility when agreeing on the information needed for the evaluation of the GIA in May 2028.
The assembly of European telecoms regulators warned against a “rushed broad-brush approach” on information requests and geographic surveys under the proposed Digital Networks Act (DNA). This may lead to less effective data gathering, while increasing costs at the same time.
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