Profile: Colin Long
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Law Firm: | Olswang |
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| Office: |
Olswang 90 High Holborn WC1V 6XX |
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| City: | London | |
| Country: | England | |
| Tel: | +44 20 7067 3179 | |
| Fax: | +44 20 7067 3999 | |
| Email: | colin.long@olswang.com |
Regulatory Communications
Biography: Regulatory Communications
Colin Long is a partner and leader of the telecommunications practice and the regulated industries practice in the UK law firm Olswang. He has guided many of the world's leading telecommunications companies over the years in a variety of deals related to fixed, mobile and satellite-based services. His work encompasses regulation and competition law, commercial and corporate transactions and advisory work in the communications, IT and general high-tech sectors.His work is divided mainly between transactions and regulation advice; recently he has been assisting various fixed-line operators and a mobile operator on challenges to proposed Ofcom decisions. He has also advised various UK network owners and service providers on broadband, IP, interconnect and other access issues as well as on regulatory and competition law matters and proceedings before the regulator Ofcom and the European Commission.
A graduate of Bristol University, Colin trained and worked at Clifford Turner before becoming a partner at Bird & Bird and later Coudert Brothers, then moving to Olswang in 1998.
He is the author of the leading textbook Global Telecommunications Law and Practice (Sweet & Maxwell), a guest speaker at numerous conferences and a frequent writer of articles in the telecoms press. He is a former chairman of the communications law committee of the International Bar Association and a member of the UK parliamentary information technology committee.
This biography is an extract from The International Who's Who of Regulatory Communications Lawyers which can be purchased from our bookstore.
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Another Turn of the Wheel For EU Communications Regulation
From digital switchover to mobile roaming and access to next generation networks, from television without frontiers to online content, European commission staff have probed every corner of the EU communications market over the last year or so. Documents updating policies and describing new approaches, with even newer abbreviations, were published, charting shifts in regulatory fashion and, in some cases, the manifestation of old prophecies. Convergence, long predicted, seems finally to have arrived.
Communicating the Message
November 2007 saw the European Commission adopt a suite of proposals to amend the current electronic communications regulatory framework (2007 review). Significant change is proposed in some areas, although it remains to be seen whether some of the more controversial proposals represent bargaining chips that the Commission will trade for implementation in other areas.