Ten months after the Commission's proposal, the Council is still in its first reading and the Parliament's lead rapporteur has just put binding interconnection disputes back on the table. A short state of play, and five things operators can prepare now.
BT’s TalkTalk rescue kept 2.5 million customers connected, but the UK’s public-interest review asks regulators to weigh continuity against competition.
The 50% fine discount expired on 1 June 2026. Three months later, the first-wave EU fines are visible, Bulgaria's competent authorities were only being designated in August, and telecom operators are being asked for evidence, not architecture.
4iG and SpaceX plan direct-to-device services in Hungary and the Western Balkans. The commercial question is whether spectrum, resilience and wholesale integration can follow.
The ITU-ICPC Advisory Body closed two years of work with data: repair response time more than doubled since 2012, and 80%+ of faults are still human-caused.
In four days, the FCC extended US cable licensing to onshore SLTE and the European Commission funded two Regional Hubs and a €40M repair call. One threat, two logics.