Regulation and control is the mantra now for telecom regulators worldwide. Romania’s Anti-trust agency, Competition Council has initiated a series of investigation to probe the NetCity Telecom’s policies that the regular says is discriminatory. It is alleged that the NetCity, which operates the Bucharest’s underground fiber optic networks had established a dominant position and implemented restrictions that make sharing of the network difficult.

The partners of APX-West Submarine fiber optic cable system has reached to an agreement on the implementation and operation and have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU). The partners Singtel, SubPartners, and Telstra jointly announced that they have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to build a new international submarine cable, APX-West. APX-West will connect Perth in Australia and…

India’s Telecom company MTNL, which is a public sector unit responsible for telecom services in big cities like Mumbai and New Delhi has been continuously making losses over the past many years. Rumors were spreading in the Indian telecom market about the closure of MTNL. In fact, the Modi Government had announced the Government’s strategy to close down all Public…

Broadband News updates on February 25, 2015 Outflanking Network Neutrality: The Ubiquitous broadband strategy Over the past few years, Internet companies Google, Facebook, Amazon have announced a series of investments in unconventional broadband …   Will net neutrality slow broadband investment? Sununu is now the honorary co-chair of telecommunications industry trade groupBroadband for America and a Time Warner Cable board member.   What the Broadband Industry Really Needs…