The emergence of Next Generation Networks (NGNs) raises profound challenges for regulators everywhere. Different regulatory authorities have approached these problems in strikingly different ways, depending in part on the overall regulatory milieu in which they operate, and in part on the nature...

The emergence of Next Generation Networks (NGNs) raises profound challenges for regulators everywhere. Different regulatory authorities have approached these problems in strikingly different ways, depending in part on the overall regulatory milieu in which they operate, and in part on the nature...

The emergence of Next Generation Networks (NGNs) raises profound challenges for regulators everywhere. Different regulatory authorities have approached these problems in strikingly different ways, depending in part on the overall regulatory milieu in which they operate, and in part on the nature...

The emergence of Next Generation Networks (NGNs) raises profound challenges for regulators everywhere. Different regulatory authorities have approached these problems in strikingly different ways, depending in part on the overall regulatory milieu in which they operate, and in part on the nature...

Why is it so difficult to draft laws and regulations that are coherent, consistent, and free of logical errors? Electronic communications laws in the European Union and in the United States (and probably everywhere else) are, we would contend, replete with ‘bugs' – logical errors in their...

A European debate over measures ostensibly to fully achieve a single market for electronic communications across the EU was brought to a head by the European Commission's 2013 proposed Telecoms Single Market (TSM) legislative package. The Commission apparently hoped to achieve a Single European...

In 2015 the European Commission adopted the Digital Single Market (DSM) strategy, aiming to establish common European data protection rules, reform telecoms rules and modernise copyright rules, among other goals. The authors in this Forum review the progress made thus far and explore the...

How do the staff size and the skill mix of a regulatory agency affect the manner in which it functions, and its effectiveness in meeting its goals? National Regulatory Authorities (NRAs) for electronic communications differ greatly from one another in terms of the number and the composition of...

A recent U.S. Court of Appeals decision, Comcast vs. FCC, calls into question the FCC’s authority to implement two of the most important policies of the Obama Administration, and of the Federal Communications Commission under the leadership of Chairman Julius Genachowski: • The...