The FTC is suing Facebook for 'illegal monopolisation'. We look here at the arguments on both sides and conclude that the proposed remedy of forcing Facebook to sell ...
Summary: Proximus has agreed to acquire Mobile Vikings and Jim Mobile, two MVNOs owned by DPG Media, for EUR 130 million. The deal adds around 335,000 customers, EUR 50 ...
Summary: T-Mobile Netherlands has agreed to acquire the country's biggest MVNO, Simpel. This gives the company around 1 million extra customers, who already use the T-Mobile ...
With lockdown measures being lifted in many countries, the focus of the coronavirus crisis is shifting towards how to prevent a second wave of infections. Several countries ...
The anti-5G movement has ramped up in recent weeks with a raft of vandalism against mobile masts in the UK and the Netherlands. Belgium also joined countries such as ...
The Dutch government has started the consultation on the spectrum auction planned for Q2 2020. The most important news is the minimum proceeds of EUR 915 million. This is on ...
Xavier Niel is amassing assets in Europe (and beyond) and is ready to disrupt the mobile markets. Not in the way that other so-called challengers disrupt, but in a truly ...
There has been just six years between the launch of 4G networks (2013) and the first 5G networks (2019). Was that enough time to earn a return on 4G? It may seem unlikely, ...
Apple gave its first sales warning in 15 years this week, making world news and raising a number of questions. Has Apple passed its peak? If so, and even more important, ...
After Facebook, Twitter is the latest tech stock to take a dive on disappointing quarterly results. While the company is succeeding in monetising usage better, the declining ...
Iliad has signed up 300,000 customers in its first month as Italy's fourth mobile operator, according to estimates from German bank Berenberg based on number porting figures. ...
The technology sector is struggling with several big problems that can have a significant impact on an important asset for companies like Google, Facebook and Amazon: their ...
The 3GPP has published Release 15, formalising the 5G standard. A Non Stand-Alone (NSA) version of 5G was approved last year already, with signalling still over 4G, and now ...
De Croo claims that Belgium is an expensive country for mobile data and that its mobile data usage is lagging other countries. Using data from Telecompaper's latest EU ...
Snap reported fourth-quarter results well ahead of expectations, both in terms of revenues and users. Is the outlook for the company behind Snapchat improving? At the very ...
The launch of unlimited data in the mobile market appears to have left operators with few tools left to control prices. The telecom sector's growth has been based on ...
The agreement in France to improve rural 4G services shows a new way forward in the mobile industry in managing the cost of network investments and spectrum. In exchange for ...
The plan to merge Deutsche Telekom and Tele2's activities in the Netherlands raises again the regulatory question of how many mobile operators are enough. There are a number ...
2017 will go down as a year of considerable changes on the Dutch mobile market. T-Mobile and Tele2 introduced plans with unlimited calls, SMS and data in both the Netherlands ...
Vodafone has launched its new zero-rated passes across Europe in recent months. Each Pass offers unlimited data for a certain type of content, such as chat apps, social ...
Unlimited mobile data plans are a new thing on the Dutch market since the start of this year. T-Mobile started with an offer of unlimited calls, SMS and data for EUR 35 per ...
The Dutch government has set a preliminary date of autumn 2019 for the next multi-band spectrum auction, marking a new step towards 5G. The next generation of mobile networks ...
The long-awaited introduction of roam-like-at-home in the EU is set to come into effect on 15 June. In principle, it's a simple change: we pay the same when travelling in the ...
The European mobile market appears set to break through a key barrier: moving from set data bundles to truly unlimited data plans. While Asian markets like Japan have had ...
Tele2 has introduced a new categorisation of its country operations, terming Sweden and the Baltics 'challengers' and the Netherlands and Kazakhstan, where it's still ...