South African policy change may benefit foreign comms companies

The Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) has reportedly limited bandwidth imports from India to 50% of Bangladesh’s total international capacity, and plans to lower that percentage even further in favour of subsea cables and satell…

The European Commission (EC) revealed it is investigating UAE-based operator group e&’s acquisition of Czech telecoms company PPF Telecom’s assets, due to concerns on how the group may be benefitting from state cash injections, reported Reuters.

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.