content and carrier
This is a blawg on European electronic communications and digital media law.
Author: Dragana Damjanovic, assistant professor at the Institute of European and Austrian Public Law at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration; Hans Peter Lehofer, judge at the Austrian Administrative Court; Gregor Ribarov, research assistant at the Institute of European and Austrian Public Law at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration; Peter Thyri, associate at Schönherr Rechtsanwälte in Vienna, Austria.
Blawg Related Categories: International Law • Internet Law • Media & Communications Law • International Courts/Tribunals • International • Europe • Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration • Associate • Judge • Law Professor
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“Silence is the perfectest herald of joy”* or: our take on the “why we haven’t posted much recently”-topic
My latest post to this blog dates from 20 May 2009. It’s not like nothing happened in the six weeks that have passed since - there was, just for instance the ECJ-Judgment in the case…
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“maintain it with some little cost”*: Termination Rates Recommendation
Today, the Commission Recommendation of 7 May 2009 on the Regulatory Treatment of Fixed and Mobile Termination Rates in the EU (2009/396/EC) was published in the Official Journal. Presenting the recommendation two weeks ago, Commissioners…
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“Who would be thence that has the benefit of access”*: C-192/08 TeliaSonera
Does the access directive 2002/19/EC permit a member state to require operators of electronic communication networks to negotiate interconnection (or access) agreements with a provider of SMS- and MMS-services? The ECJ will have to address this…
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No rubber stamp after all: EP vote on the telecoms package
The Czech Presidency of the Council had expected the European Parliament to “rubber-stamp” a compromise reached in the trialogue on the telecoms package (see this post); and I had no reason to doubt that. But…
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EC-commissioned study on media pluralism indicators: draft version online
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