“In my constituency, I witnessed a case where a towerco offered a mayor a symbolic one-euro lease,” said French Senator Patrick Chaize.
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“Lease aggregator [has] significant bargaining power over the towerco,” Vantage Towers told the Commission.
A new out-of-court body certified by Irish authorities to settle disputes related to the DSA has strong ties to Meta and the Hungarian presidency of the Council of the EU suggests a potential revival of the review of the e-Privacy directive in draft Co…
Tower companies are facing similar issues regarding price regulation, competition by land aggregators, permit granting, and electromagnetic fields exhaustion.
EU telecom associations have criticised the course pursued by negotiators on the Gigabit Infrastructure Act, saying the text will allow the speeding up of telecom infrastructure roll-out but will have a minimal impact due to shrinking returns on invest…
The EU Council of Ministers is considering a timid compromise on the tacit approval principle in the EU broadband law and remains dubious about ending intra-EU call surcharges, according to an internal document seen by Euractiv.
With the aim to bring high connectivity for all Europeans by 2030, the Parliament agreed on an ambitious text pushing towards EU harmonised rules for telecoms, abolition of extra fees for intra-EU calls and adoption of the principle of administrative t…
This week’s Euractivโs Tech Brief Podcast looks at the specific business model of tower companies and their potential regulation under a new EU legislation: the Gigabit Infrastructure Act.
Discussions among member states on the EU’s new telecom law point to providing countries with extensive flexibility, thus turning the regulation into a text reading more like a directive, but the main point of contention remains the ‘tacit approval’ pr…
The main contention points in the European Parliament’s debate about an EU broadband law are how to deal with tower companies and the rules for permits, while divisions over the senders-pay principle loom in the background.
