Will the #DigitalNetworksAct protect or break Europe’s #OpenInternet? 🚨 At our recent workshop, experts from across the digital ecosystem debated the risks of mandatory #IPinterconnection dispute settlement. 🎥 Watch the highlights video below. youtube.com/watch?v=Sq9Yid0H…

We are very excited to co-organise this #DigitalNetworksAct event with Euractiv on 16 October, exploring how the DNA could reshape Europe’s #OpenInternet. 👇 Register now! #DigitalDecade #FairShare #IPinterconnection #NetNeutrality #NetworkFees

🚨 Europe’s #OpenInternet at risk – and the deadline to speak up is 11 July. The @EU_Commission is considering an #IPinterconnection dispute resolution mechanism as part of the upcoming #DigitalNetworksAct. 🎥 This short video explains why that’s a problem. 🧵 1/3

#DigitalNetworksAct: "We urge the @EU_Commission to abandon its #IPinterconnection plans and refrain from extending the #EECC to #cloud services." ⛔ "Both ideas still lack evidence and fail to address a clear problem." ➡️ ccianet.org/news/2025/03/tec…

🔥Hot Item: Fighting for Net Neutrality – Our Chat with @socialhack from the Netzbremse Coalition About Their Complaint Against Deutsche Telekom 🔥 📢 "Access is no longer universal." 📺 Watch now:: youtu.be/b8JWQ19s988 #NetNeutrality #IPinterconnection #FairShare #NetworkFees

🔥 A group of civil society organisations calls on the next @EU_Commission to preserve the Open Internet! In an open letter addressed to Commissioner-designate for Tech Sovereignty, Security and Democracy @HennaVirkkunen ahead of her 12 November confirmation hearing at the European Parliament. ⚠️ The signatories express their concerns with ongoing efforts to undermine critical principles of net neutrality and to request that the European Commission refrain from intervening in the commercial dynamics of the Internet’s interconnection ecosystem. 🗣️ The group “strongly oppose[s] these proposals that [they] believe are not only unnecessary, but also extremely harmful to the global Internet and its users,” emphasising that “only the largest operators supported this type of regulatory intervention.” 📣 They recall that European stakeholders have already spoken during the recent consultation efforts: “it is time for Europe to use its global leadership to promote an open Internet for everyone.” 🔗 internetsociety.org/open-let…  🖊️ The signatories: 🔸 @internetsociety 🔸 @epicenter_works 🔸 @ApTI_ro 🔸 @CENTRnews 🔸 Chaos Computer Club e.V. (@chaosupdates) 🔸 Chaos Computer Club Lëtzebuerg (@c3l_) 🔸 @LibertiesEU 🔸 @creativecommons 🔸 Desiree Miloshevic, RIPE Cooperation Working Group Co-Chair 🔸 Digital Society Forum 🔸 @digitalcourage 🔸 @DrzavljanD 🔸 Dr. @kkomaitis, Senior Resident Fellow, Lead on Internet governance, DFRLab, Atlantic Council; senior researcher and non-resident fellow, Lisbon Council. 🔸 Electronic Frontier Foundation (@EFF) 🔸 Electronic Frontier Norway (@EFN) 🔸 European Digital Rights (@edri) 🔸 @Homo_Digitalis_ 🔸 The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (@IFLA) 🔸 Internet Society Belgium Chapter (@isoc_belgium) 🔸 Internet Society Catalan Chapter 🔸 Internet Society Norway Chapter (@ISOCNorway) 🔸 Internet Society Poland Chapter (@ISOCPoland) 🔸 Internet Society Portuguese Chapter (@isocpt) 🔸 Internet Society Romania (@isocro) 🔸 Internet Society UK England Chapter (@ISOCUKEngland) 🔸 IT-Pol Denmark (@itpof) 🔸 Johan Helsingius (@julfmobile), RIPE Cooperation Working Group Co-Chair 🔸 Michele Neylon (@mneylon), CEO, Blacknight 🔸 @ow2 open source association 🔸 @Vrijschrift 🔸 @X_net_, Institute for Democratic Digitalisation #KeepItOpen #NetNeutrality #BetterRegulation #competitiveness #connectivity #Council #DigitalEU #DigitalNetworksAct #EU #EUCouncil #EUpolicy #FairShare #FutureTelecoms #IPInterconnection #NetworkFees #OpenInternet #telecoms #TelecomPolicy #TelecomRegulation #WhitePaper #EuropeanElectronicCommunicationsCode #EECC

🔥Big Telco’s shifting tune: Struggle Street for the EU, Wall Street for the shareholders.  🤑 The ‘We're crushing it!’ discourse: @theophane_h, from @Euractiv, reports that Deutsche Telekom CEO Timotheus Höttges told investors the telecom operator is “thriving” on both sides of the Atlantic. 👛 The ‘We’re broke!’ rhetoric: Meanwhile, lobbyists representing these incumbent operators are trying to convince policy makers that they need a so-called ‘fair share’ (aka network fees) from (Big) Tech to enable their network investments. 📵 A disconnect in the messaging? For these incumbent telcos, struggling and thriving aren’t mutually exclusive. It all depends on who’s listening. 🐈‍⬛ Schrödinger’s telco? Policy makers, it’s time to lift the lid and see if the industry is really out of lives. Spoiler alert: it isn’t. 🔗 euractiv.com/section/tech/ne…  #BetterRegulation #competitiveness #connectivity #Council #DigitalEU #DigitalNetworksAct #EU #EUCouncil #EUpolicy #FairShare #FutureTelecoms #IPInterconnection #NetNeutrality #NetworkFees #OpenInternet #telecoms #TelecomPolicy #TelecomRegulation #WhitePaper

🔥 “It’s time to move on” from the European Commission’s “myopic and borderline dangerous” vision of the past five years on enhancing digital infrastructure, argues @kkomaitis in a blog post for the @lisboncouncil. 🗣️ “The problem with Commissioner Breton’s vision was that, in order to reform telcos, he was convinced he had to bring down the entire internet. And this has always been the telcos’ problem. They never liked what the Internet did to them,” he writes. 💡 Komaitis highlights the opportunity for Commissioner-designate @HennaVirkkunen to take a different path and “to focus on a more positive agenda, fostering sustainable economic, environmental and social benefits across Europe through digital transformation.” ⚡ Exciting times ahead to see the path the new European Commission will chart. #BetterRegulation #competitiveness #connectivity #Council #DigitalEU #DigitalNetworksAct #EU #EUCouncil #EUpolicy #FairShare #FutureTelecoms #IPInterconnection #NetNeutrality #NetworkFees #OpenInternet #telecoms #TelecomPolicy #TelecomRegulation #WhitePaper

📡 Unveiling the future of telecoms: 'Perspectives' from our Telecom Time Capsules! 🔮 Gaze into the telecom crystal ball with @the_info_labs, as we’ve compiled a fresh report on tomorrow's connectivity landscape. ⌚ A timely document, with the Hungarian Presidency of the @EUCouncil (@HU24EU) holding a conference today, 2 October, on the future of telecoms entitled “Regulation Reloaded – Changing the Rulebook of Electronic Communications?”. 🎥 The starting point: our bite-sized video insights from top experts, offering:  ↪️ predictions on the evolving connectivity need of users and businesses, and  ↪️ crucial insights for policy makers on what to enable and avoid. 🧠 Benefit from the insights of our forward-thinking visionaries: ▷  A former US @NTIAgov expert: @fionamalexander | @cepa ▷  A network expert: @petra_arts | @Cloudflare ▷  An industry analyst: @disruptivedean | @DApremium ▷  Startups: @daviddebakker1 | @Allied4Startups ▷  Civil society: @carlgahnberg | @internetsociety ▷  A regulator: @KostasMasselos | @EETT_GR & @BERECeuropaeu ▷  Competitive network operators: @twPSerdengecti | @twECTA ▷  An engineer: @wilwebb1 ▷  An economist: @MarethBrian | @CommCham 💡 7 key takeaways: 🔸 Promote an open and interoperable global internet 🔸 Foster innovation by supporting diverse network players 🔸 Preserve net neutrality 🔸 Adopt a consumer-centric approach to telecom policy 🔸 Uphold Europe’s competitive telecom success 🔸 Avoid over-regulation and rethink long-term supply targets and metrics 🔸 Prepare for the future of telecom networks 🔗 Grab your copy: informationlabs.org/reports/  🎬 Watch the TTCs: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL…  #TelecomTimeCapsules #TTC #BetterRegulation #CDNs #competitiveness #connectivity #Council #DigitalEU #DigitalNetworksAct #dinosaurs #EU #EUCouncil #ΕΕΤΤ #EUpolicy #FairShare #FutureTelecoms #HU24EU #IPInterconnection #NetNeutrality #NetworkFees #NTIA #OpenInternet #startups #sustainability #telecoms #TelecomPolicy #TelecomRegulation #WhitePaper

🚨 Attention policy wonks, tech & telco geeks, and … fortune tellers! 🕰️ The internet lab is back with another ‘Telecom Time Capsule’. 🎥 In this capsule, @fionamalexander, a non-resident Senior Fellow with the Digital Innovation Initiative at the Center for European Policy Analysis (@cepa), shares her perspective on the future of telecoms and connectivity as a former expert at the US National Telecommunications and Information Administration (@NTIAgov). This policy guru isn’t afraid to call out questionable ideas! Get ready for some forward-looking insights. 📺 Watch now: youtu.be/yUmBsdd4xGg  🗝️ Key insights: 🗣️ Promote the open Internet: “To enable connectivity and continue growth in the communication sector over the next decade, policymakers should adopt and implement policy and legal regimes that support an open, interoperable, unfragmented global Internet.” 🗣️ Consider the policy impact: “Policymakers should proactively consider the impact of proposed regulatory regimes on the Internet's underlying infrastructure and existing standards before rules are put in place.” 🗣️ Encourage dialogue: “This consideration should be done in open, transparent, and participatory processes that allow full collaboration with the industry, the technical community, civil society, and academia.” 🗣️ Put an end to the network fees charade: “Luckily, some policymakers saw through this facade, but it's important to be vigilant, as no doubt these retrograde [fair share] ideas will resurface” ⚠️ Tag a policy maker who needs to see this! Remember, the future of connectivity is calling – will you answer? 📞 Don’t miss this series of video capsules to gain valuable insights for better and more informed policy making. Discover more perspectives: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL…  #TelecomTimeCapsules #TTC #Council #TelecomRegulation #TelecomPolicy #EU #DigitalEU #DigitalNetworksAct #NetworkFees #FairShare #BetterRegulation #FutureTelecoms #WhitePaper #OpenInternet #NetNeutrality #IPInterconnection #telecoms #EUpolicy #connectivity #NTIA

🚨 Attention policy wonks, tech & telco geeks, and … fortune tellers! 🕰️ The internet lab is back with another ‘Telecom Time Capsule’. 📺 Watch now: youtu.be/5zoaO9FW4H0  🎥 In this capsule, futurist @disruptivedean (@DApremium) shares an industry analyst’s perspective on the future of telecoms and connectivity. While rescuing dinosaurs may be thrilling in films like Jurassic Park, Dean sees no reason to protect those telcos that cling to obsolete approaches worthy of the Mesozoic Era. 🦖 🗝️ Key insights: 🗣️ Sustain digital progress: “Don't break the Internet. It works. It's not perfect (...) but fundamentally, the Internet has been one of the most important commercial and educational and government innovations over the last four decades, and we should be avoiding mechanisms which look to undermine its success.” 🗣️ Update digital decade targets: “We should be thinking about targets and particularly digital decade targets. They need a review and rethink. Some of them were set five or even ten years ago and they haven't kept up to date with our current thinking.” 🗣️ Modernise metrics: “We need to think about better metrics and KPIs. A lot of the things we look at, whether that's around coverage, around usage of networks, whether it's in gigabytes or minutes, are very, very old statistics.” 🗣️ Don’t focus on the dinos: “In a way we should be encouraging the evolution of mammals and not just protecting the dinosaurs.” ⚠️ Tag a policy maker who needs to see this! Remember, the future of connectivity is calling – will you answer? 📞 Don’t miss this series of video capsules to gain valuable insights for better and more informed policy making. Discover more perspectives: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL…  #TelecomTimeCapsules #TTC #Council #TelecomRegulation #TelecomPolicy #EU #DigitalEU #DigitalNetworksAct #NetworkFees #FairShare #BetterRegulation #FutureTelecoms #WhitePaper #OpenInternet #NetNeutrality #IPInterconnection #telecoms #EUpolicy #connectivity #dinosaurs

🚨 Attention policy wonks, tech & telco geeks, and … fortune tellers! 🕰️ Buckle up and get ready to hop into our digital DeLorean and zoom into the future of telecom: the internet lab brings you the ‘Telecom Time Capsules’. 🎞️ What's in these capsules? Not Nespresso, but our bite-sized videos do pack a punch with: ↪️ expert predictions on the evolving needs of a thriving connectivity environment for users and businesses, and ↪️ crucial insights on what policy-makers should (1) enable and (2) avoid. 🤔 Why does this matter? Today, 5 September, the Council’s Working Party on Telecommunications and Information Society meets under the leadership of the Hungarian Presidency. On the agenda: the draft Council Conclusions on the European Commission’s White Paper on “How to master Europe’s digital infrastructure needs?”. 🔗 consilium.europa.eu/en/meeti…  Ready to become the Marty McFly of telecoms policy, armed with the knowledge to shape the future? We’ll be Doc Brown guiding you on the adventure! Our first guest of this series brings the regulator’s perspective: Professor @KostasMasselos, President of the Hellenic Telecommunications and Post Commission (@EETT_GR) and 2024 Vice-Chair of the Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (@BERECeuropaeu). 📺 Watch now - no flux capacitor required: youtu.be/NI687dFYwYg Some of the pearls of wisdom shared by Prof. Masselos: 🗣️ Digital transformation: “Telecom networks are not an objective by itself, but a platform for the digital transformation of public and private sector, but also our everyday life.” 🗣️ Service innovation: “Future networks will not be about speed. (...) the selling point of higher speed is already exhausted... Future networks will be about the new services these networks will make possible.” 🗣️ Technological neutrality: “Our future ambitious connectivity objectives should be technology neutral. We should not get stuck to specific technologies, but (...) achieving our ambitious gigabit connectivity objectives in the most cost-efficient way requires a hybrid technology solution.” 🗣️ Sustainability: “Most important, we should not forget adding the word ‘sustainable’ next to the word ‘future’ as regards telecom networks.” Join us as we unpack the road ahead, and let’s ensure we can say, “Everything looks great!” and not “What the hell is this?”. ⚠️ Tag a policy maker who needs to see this! Remember, the future of connectivity is calling – will you answer? 📞 #TelecomTimeCapsules #TTC #Council #TelecomRegulation #TelecomPolicy #EU #DigitalEU #DigitalNetworksAct #NetworkFees #FairShare #BetterRegulation #FutureTelecoms #WhitePaper #OpenInternet #NetNeutrality #IPInterconnection #telecoms #EUpolicy #connectivity #sustainability #EUCouncil #HU24EU #ΕΕΤΤ #BEREC

NTT Technical Review: Standardization Trends in 3GPP Related to IP Interconnect Specifications - ntt-review.jp/archive/ntttec… #Free5Gtraining #3G4G5G #NTT #VoIP #Interconnection #ISUP #SIP #IPinterconnection #3GPP #IETF #ITUT #TTC #Japan #NGMN #IMS #SIP

What Do Network Operators Sell to Each Other? - labs.ripe.net/Members/uta_me… #IXP #peering #IPinterconnection #market

“@fgoodwin: US Carriers Should Fix Own Regulatory Crisis lightreading.com/regulation/… #IPTransition #IPInterconnection #PSTNSunset”