Today the European Commission sent two sets of preliminary findings to #Alphabet / #Google for failing to comply with the Digital Markets Act (#DMA), regarding two services for which it has been designated as a #gatekeeper: #Googlesearch and #GooglePlay. Irrespective of the final

It was challenging to be at #FTTH2025 and moderate the workshop on deploying #fiberoptic networks in mountain areas, together with Boris Ilovar of #SpeedConnect, Christian Schläpfer of #SwissFibreCo AG, Ivan Botta of #Isiline and Manuel Garnelo of #RedNeutra. Deploying #fiber

The US government has published its annual report on barriers to (their) trade. As for Italy, the traditional obstacles to bananas remain (!), but also those in terms of energy and audiovisual. More interestingly, as EU and digital are concerned: #fairshare is mentioned as

Congratulations to Judge Susan Crawford on her victory, and to the people of Wisconsin for electing a judge who believes in the rule of law and protecting our freedoms.

So, how did the Trump administration calculate the infamous reciprocal tariffs? It's simple matter of math: first divide the trade deficit with any country in 2024 by the total imports, which according to the White House would yield the tariff these countries charge to U.S.

How many telecom operators are there in the US? Only 3 (i.e. Verizon, AT&T, and TMobile) as supporters of #consolidation suggest? Or 4+1, i.e. including UScellualr or Dish? I admit that the question does not fascinate me, especially if it is aimed at extracting "lessons" for some

#Apple: €500 million fine for App Store policies. #Meta: €200 million fine for "pay or consent” solution. The level of the fines may not look extraordinary comparing to the companies’ turnover. For instance, #Apple had a turnover of 391 billion dollars in 2024: at the

Buon #25aprile

At #IBA Communications Conference in Paris we hold a very interesting debate about #cloud and #competition. Many thanks to @LeonorCordovil who coordinated the panel and to @AntonioBaldassarra @NeilGallagher and @ElodieVandenhende who made the discussion vibrant. Amongst the

Old but gold: The Seven Deadly Sins of #AI Predictions technologyreview.com/2017/10/06/241…

Il tema delle #fusioni tra operatori mobili è da sempre prioritario nel dibattito sulle #telecomunicazioni. Ho esaminato la letteratura economica che ha analizzato le fusioni avvenute nel settore mobile europeo dal 2012 in poi ed il risultato porta a ridimensionare determinati

So, the US Congress is passing a kind of #AI moratorium, preventing US States to legislate on AI for the next 10 years. It could be seen as a wise move, to avoid the proliferation of discordant national laws, unless it hides instead the purpose of preventing any regulation on AI,

A Hungarian court is referring an interesting #copyright question regarding publishers and news aggregators, focussing on #ancillaryrights and #AI. The question is about summaries provided by Google’s Gemini chatbot, whether they constitute a use of publishers’ news publication

I am really not surprised of the declarations of Commissioner Virkkunen regarding the fact that in the #telecom sector “not only size matter”. In a network business what really matters is the density of population, therefore a good business plan in a well-populated area has good

#Cloud is like a tap of water. What if at some moment the tap is closed? Several years ago, specifically as early as 2015, I began raising the issue of digital sovereignty with European institutions, because I was assisting a small Italian cloud provider which was awarded a

Under US #Copyright is not enough to prevent the use of content in machine learning. To avoid content to be downloaded and used by a Foundation Model, on should install a #robotstxt, or introduce a specific variant in robots.txt reuters.com/legal/litigati…

The Court's Advocate General #Szpunar is open to a creative interpretation of the Copyright Directive, aiming to expand Member States' implementation powers: in this case, the Italian model allows the regulator, #AGCOM, to impose negotiations between the parties—publishers and