Assembly — Regulation Updates

Huawei’s woes continue

The Chinese vendor has appealed the ban it faces in the US. Meanwhile, the UK Government suggests a ban is still on the table and Deutsche Telekom suspends 5G procurement in Germany

Norwegian regulator to introduce fixed-wireless access obligation on Telenor

Nkom is considering an extra remedy on top of those mandated in the last market review, since fixed-wireless is considered a substitute product where Telenor switches off its copper network

SIM registration in China to require facial recognition

The rules adopted in September 2019 are now in force. The government also introduced stronger safeguards to its real-name SIM policy

US Government likely to retaliate against France’s digital tax

The US Trade Representative found the tax discriminatory, and suggested to respond with restrictions and tariffs up to 100% on some French products

European Commission to table a new proposal for the ePrivacy Regulation

Commissioner Thierry Breton took note of the continued impasse in the European Council. A new proposal will now be discussed in H1 2020 during the Croatian presidency