Regulatory Communications

The Main Regulatory Issues Within the Industry and Their Impact Upon the Legal Marketplace in 2007

Mark Verbiest

Group General CounselTelecom New Zealand Limited

David Knight

General Counsel New Zealand

Debra Blackett

Assistant General Counsel Group Competition and Regulatory Telecom New Zealand Limited

We see the key regulatory issues for 2007 as being technological convergence, regulatory policy on spectrum allocation, further industry consolidation, and the regulatory imposition of functional separation regimes on incumbent telecommunications operators.

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Another Turn of the Wheel For EU Communications Regulation

Colin Long

Natasha Hobday

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.

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The Scope of the Commission Three-Criteria Test: A System Fault?

Peter Eijsvoogel

Bas Braeken

One of the main features of the 2003 European regulatory framework for electronic communications networks and services is the European Commission’s recommendation on relevant product market and service markets within the electronic communications sector. This recommendation sets out which markets the commission believes are susceptible to ex ante regulation.

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Editorial: Regulatory Communications

This chapter lists 226 professionals in 39 countries. These lawyers specialise in representing the telecommunications industry in relationships with ministries and regulators. Our research has targeted those lawyers who are experts in licensing, interconnection, tariffs, foreign ownership and other general aspects of compliance. Practitioners who excel in related dispute resolution have also been included.

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Editorial: Regulatory Communications in Singapore

The research for this chapter has identified 11 individuals, all of whom are recommended for their expertise in the representation of telecoms clients before communications ministries and government regulators. Our research has targeted private practice lawyers with an expertise in offering advice to corporates on questions of licensing, interconnection, tariffs and other general aspects of compliance with the regulatory regime. Given the close relationship between the regulation of communications and competition law, two of practitioners on the following pages appear in both chapters.

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