Assembly — Regulation Updates

Regulating the resilience of communications platforms

Though outages to popular apps like KakaoTalk are increasingly disruptive, few regulators have so far enacted policies to improve platform resilience

A new market structure for broadband in Italy

The sale of TIM’s fixed-line infrastructure is not expected to affect competition at the wholesale level, but the Government will be watching developments closely

Event debrief: AI Fringe Seoul Summit

Panellists questioned the long-term aims of the international AI summit series while encouraging participants to consider the future direction of the UK’s own tech policy

Mobile market consolidation in the US

T-Mobile claims acquiring UScellular will boost competition, but M&A in such a concentrated market will attract scrutiny over the potential effects on pricing and consumers

Is a united approach to online safety possible?

While the policy position highlights the common role of regulators in making the internet safer, there remain challenging legal and cultural differences in defining harm online

Innovation in the EU: Make it simple

A coalition of governments from Estonia, Germany, Latvia and Lithuania add to the growing chorus of voices seeking to shape the agenda of the next Commission

The UK’s framework for regulating online platforms

Though the DMCC Act diverges in the details when compared to the EU’s DMA, the laws both reflect a growing global scrutiny for mergers and acquisitions in tech markets