BEREC Chair Robert Mourik (pictured) warned of “fundamental repercussions” for the European technology sector if policies from the new European Commission are based on recent reports calling for sweeping changes to the telecoms framework.
Governments in Mozambique and Mauritius have reportedly shut down access to social media and messaging sites, as Mozambique deals with election protests while Mauritius is trying to control the fallout of an alleged wiretapping scandal.
South Africa’s Electronic Communications Act, which requires foreign-owned communications licensees to sell 30% of equity in their local subsidiaries to historically disadvantaged groups, is to be amended.
India’s Department of Telecommunication (DoT) wrapped up its second 5G spectrum auction on Wednesday, selling 141.4 MHz of spectrum for just Rs113.4 billion (US$1.35 billion), a tenth of the value of the total spectrum on offer and its lowest auction r…