The challenges of regulating the cloud

Rob Kenny has authored a report on the challenge of regulating the cloud.

You can download the report here.

The future of connectivity

In this paper Brian Willamson and Robert Kenny take a look at trends in connectivity, and in particular the slowing in demand growth that calls for a substantial rethink in telecoms policy, and the abandonment of a target-driven approach.

The Future of Media Regulation

Tim Suter gave a speech to a roundtable organised by the German regulator (Direktorenkonferenz der Landesmedienanstalten) on the Future of Media Regulation in Brussels on 3 May 2012.

The impracticalities of a Broad USF

This note from Robert Kenny and Brian Williamson considers a 'Broad USF' - a universal service fund to support the Digital Decade goals, backed by levies on telcos as well as application providers.

They find that it comes with a host of practical challenges, and is unlikely to be in operation in time to have impact on achievement of those goals

The new AVMSD - an unravelling of the Digital Single Market

In this paper for the CCIA, Rob Kenny and Tim Suter review the proposed changes to the regulation of VOD services, in particular the shift to 'country of destination' and the abandonment of the country of origin principle.

We find that:

• The process that led to the proposed revisions was deeply flawed
• The 'level playing field', the main argument for change, does not stand up to scrutiny
• The proposed changes will be difficult to implement and will have numerous adverse consequences