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.
The Vietnamese government has reportedly signed a new decree that, among other things, promises to make it easier for telecoms players, data centre operators and cloud providers to get the necessary approvals to set up operations in Vietnam.
India has a new communications minister. His name is Jyotiraditya Scindia. The former civil aviation minister takes over some, though not all, of the portfolio of his predecessor, Ashwini Vaishnaw.
As it suggested it would in late 2024, Zimbabwe has now started levying a new tax on payments to increasingly popular multinational digital service providers.