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UK Government publishes the Online Safety Bill

The Government faces a difficult balancing act of needing to do more to tackle harmful content online, but avoiding harming freedom of expression

ComReg consults on its strategy for the next five years

The plan looks like more of the same, and is perhaps a missed opportunity to focus on emerging issues such as sustainability

Elsewhere in regulation this week

Other noteworthy regulatory developments week ending 14 May 2021 from the Assembly Analyst team

Italy drops plans for a single broadband network

The European Commission would have likely blocked it – and it was probably not a good idea anyway

Portuguese regulator set to renew 900MHz and 1800MHz licences

ANACOM proposes to extend licences until 2033, in return operators must improve coverage

European Commission believes Apple is using its App Store to distort competition

The EC is not the only regulator to take the view that app stores are a bottleneck

Elsewhere in regulation this week

Other noteworthy regulatory developments week ending 7 May 2021 from the Assembly Analyst team

Germany gets serious about its broadband target

The pace of fibre deployment now needs to match the increase in funding available

A new regulatory framework for the Australian NBN

The NBN says it is now open to a new framework for access prices – but pressure was already mounting from the Government and other stakeholders

Swiss mobile operators win an important legal battle over 5G deployment

Operators should now be able to deploy new antennas more easily, but local authorities are likely to continue putting obstacles in the way