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DOJ takes Apple to court over smartphone monopoly

Apple is not 'making its own products better,' says Attorney General Merrick Garland, but 'other products worse' The U.S. Department of Justice and 16 state and district attorneys general have filed a lawsuit against Apple, accusing the tech giant of monopolizing the smartphone market. The...

#TBT: That shiny new Telecom Act; Transitioning from analog to digital phones; Telstra goes public … this week in 1997

Editor’s Note: RCR Wireless News goes all in for “Throwback Thursdays,” tapping into our archives to resuscitate the top headlines from the past. Fire up the time machine, put on those sepia-tinted shades, set the date for #TBT and enjoy the memories! Absorbing the impact...

Regulator seeks early views on proposed Vodafone-Three merger

If the Vodafone-Three transaction is approved, the new entity will reach 99% of the U.K. population with 5G Standalone (SA) networks The U.K. Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said it is providing an early opportunity for interested third parties to comment on the potential impacts...

Australian Competition Tribunal blocks Telstra-TPG deal

Telstra and TPG Telecom had announced a ten-year regional Multi-Operator Core Network (MOCN) commercial agreement in 2022 The Australian Competition Tribunal has declined to allow local operators TPG Telecom and Telstra to share regional spectrum and mobile network assets. In a release, the Australian Competition and...

Australia watchdog blocks Telstra, TPG network-sharing deal

The deal would have an 'immediate and enduring' impact on infrastructure competition, says the ACCC The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) blocked an asset sharing deal between Telstra and TPG, the country’s two largest providers. In a statement, ACCC Commissioner Liza Carver said the...

Canada issues new rules to foster competition via MVNOs

The country's telecom regulator said that the rates for MVNO access in Canada are to be commercially negotiated between the telcos Canada's telecom regulator issued a new regulation under which top mobile operators will be required to accept requests for access to their networks from...

Rogers, Shaw sign deal to sell Freedom Mobile to Quebecor

With this transaction, Roger and Shaw believe that the merger of their operations should be approved by the Canadian government Canadian operators Rogers Communications, Shaw Communications and Quebecor have entered into a definitive agreement for the sale of Freedom Mobile to Videotron, a subsidiary of...

Ericsson aims to complete the Vonage acquisition in July

Ericsson had announced the acquisition of Vonage in November 2021 Ericsson said it expects the completion of its deal to buy U.S. cloud communications company Vonage to occur before the end of July, as the vendor continues to work with the Committee on Foreign Investment...

Rogers, Shaw may need to divest more mobile assets in merger: Report

Rogers and Shaw last week agreed to sell Freedom Mobile, the cellular business owned by Shaw, to Montreal-based Quebecor Canada's competition bureau is expected to ask Rogers Communications to sell Shaw Communications’ cellular unit Shaw Mobile to overcome competition concerns presented by the proposed merger...

Canadian operators Rogers and Shaw decide to pause merger process

In March last year, Rogers Communications had announced that it will purchase Shaw Communications Canadian operators Rogers Communications and Shaw Communications have agreed to not proceed with closing their proposed merger until either a negotiated settlement is agreed with the Commissioner of Competition or the...

Well, technically… the pandemic revealed how small our world truly is: Twilio’s Rebecca Thompson (Ep. 69)

Twilio's Head of Communications Policy discusses the importance of having a global business outlook even if you're not a global company.

Broadcom on early Wi-Fi 6E play: ‘We understood the hunger’

Broadcom was the first vendor to announce availability of a full suite of Wi-Fi 6E chips In December 2020, the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) Office of Engineering and Technology authorized the first Wi-Fi 6E device: A low-power indoor transmitter from Broadcom. The news was exciting for...

Brazil gives final approval to 5G tender process

Brazil’s Federal Audit Court (TCU) has officially approved the tender process through which the government will auction frequencies for 5G, the minister of communications, Fábio Faria, said on Twitter on Wednesday. "The public notice goes to Anatel to be published," Faria added in the...

Swiss telecoms association calls for acceleration in 5G deployments

  Swiss Association of Telecommunications (Asut) has called on politicians and public authorities in Switzerland to accelerate the switch to 5G technology in the country. According to the association, the upgrade of the mobile networks with the latest 5G technology is making little progress due to...

Regulations challenge Swisscom’s 5G deployments in some regions: CEO

  Swiss state-controlled telecoms group Swisscom said that the rollout of its 5G network was experiencing some obstacles due to the government’s resistance to installing upgraded antennas. “In Switzerland, there is a big debate on 5G, a lot of fake news around 5G. And the government,...

China sets new regulations for the procurement of tech equipment

  The Chinese government has set new regulations for critical information infrastructure operators to buy tech equipment, which could potentially represent new obstacles for foreign vendors. The new regulations, which were announced by the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC), require that domestic critical information infrastructure operators...

Canada completes first truck platooning trial

The platooning trial included two trucks and was carried out in Quebec FPInnovations’ transportation division, PIT Group, along with Transport Canada, Auburn University and Minimax Express Transportation recently collaborated to perform what it claimed to be Canada’s truck platooning trial. The platooning tests took place...

US firm KKR get green light to buy stake at Altice France’s tower business

  Altice France and KKR will form a new entity dubbed SFR TowerCo   The European Commission has approved a deal in which U.S. investment company Kohlberg Kravis Roberts will acquire a stake in European cable group Altice’s telecom towers business in France. In June, Altice Europe said...

German regulator publishes draft terms of 5G spectrum auction

The regulator aims to award spectrum in the 2GHz and 3.6GHz band in the first quarter of 2019 Germany's Federal Networks Agency (BNetzA) has presented the draft terms for the 5G auction planned for early 2019. The draft terms of the 5G spectrum auction do not...

U.S. appoints special compliance coordinator for ZTE

The appointment is part of the settlement between the Department of Commerce and ZTE The U.S. Department of Commerce has appointed Roscoe Howard Jr. to be the special compliance coordinator (SCC) for Chinese vendor ZTE. The special compliance coordinator was selected after a rigorous search by...

USTelecom asks FCC to eliminate some rules on landline providers

USTelecom petitions FCC to ease up on '90s-era rules on landline providers The U.S. broadband industry lobbying association USTelecom has petitioned the Federal Communications Commission to eliminate some rules from the 1990s that made large telecom companies share their networks with smaller, regional operators at...

Why do telecom companies face such strict regulations?

Some industries are regulated more heavily and strictly than others. For better or worse, the cryptocurrency market is practically free from regulations, while industries like cannabis-related products, are subject to much stricter laws and protocols. The telecom industry is one that faces much stricter regulations,...

EMEA: EU lays out plans for digital single market

The European Commission unveiled plans  on May 6 to create a single market for digital technologies across the 28-member European Union. The plan, which took six months to develop, is comprised of 16 initiatives organized around three goals: to create better access for consumers...