Public Affairs – Page 13
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O2 Germany risk BNetzA fines for 4G coverage
BNetzA threatened O2 Germany with financial penalties if it does not quickly address 4G coverage shortfalls.
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Telefónica|Vivo Smart Steps solution accused of privacy breach
Telefónica|Vivo denied allegations that data collated through its Smart Steps solution can identify individual customers and their movement patterns.
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O2 UK partner Aerial Direct admits major data breach
Aerial Direct, which describes itself as the largest direct business partner of Telefónica UK (O2 UK), admitted to a major data breach in February 2020.
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Supreme Court offers Vodafone scant hope
Top court in the land calls halt to operator self-assessment on fees. Irate judge threatens bosses with jail if liabilities not paid in timely manner. Read meets with India government ministers to seek assistance. COVID-19 lockdown measures provide temporary reprieve.
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Vodacom plays ball with CompCom on data pricing
Compromise found to help SA’s low-income groups access mobile data. Price elasticity expected to take sting out of sharp price cuts. Auction of 4G- and 5G-friendly spectrum still slated for late-2020.
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Vodafone Germany and rivals to face fines for 4G shortfalls
BNetzA confirmed that Vodafone Germany (VfD) and rivals face financial penalisation if they do not quickly address 4G coverage shortfalls.
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Vodafone Hungary back in court for “special taxes”
VfH was knocked back by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CoJ) in relation to a long-running challenge against post-sovereign debt crisis “special taxes”.
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Vodafone UK, TalkTalk fail in Ofcom challenge
Vodafone UK and rival TalkTalk failed in an initial appeal to the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT), challenging findings in regulator Ofcom’s 2019 Business Connectivity Market Review.
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Three UK’s “real 5G” ad banned after Vodafone, BT complaints
Three UK’s “misleading” 5G advertising campaign was banned after complaints from Vodafone UK (VfUK) and BT.
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Vodafone UK 5G masts targeted by arsons
VfUK Chief Executive Nick Jeffery hit out angrily after several of its masts, including sites shared with Telefónica UK, were damaged following claims linking the spread of coronavirus with roll out of 5G networks.
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Phones 4u legal saga continues
The legal action against three of the UK’s mobile network operators, including EE, over the collapse of mobile retailer Phones 4u took a further twist.
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Ofcom hits BT Consumer with fine
Ofcom slapped BT Consumer with a fairly sizeable fine of £245,000 in relation to overcharging of EE mobile customers for directory enquiries calls.
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TalkTalk, Vodafone UK Ofcom appeal fires a blank
TalkTalk and Vodafone UK failed in an initial appeal to the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) against Ofcom’s decision in the 2019 Business Connectivity Market Review (BCMR) that found Openreach did not have significant market power in the leased line sector in the Central London market.
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T-Mobile US challenged over TVision promotion
TMUS was challenged over statements promoting TVision Home, its fledgling pay-TV product. Cable rival Charter Communications took an official challenge to self-regulatory body the National Advertising Division.
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T-Mobile US disputes FCC 4G coverage report
T-Mobile US (TMUS) took issue with a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) report that claimed it and rivals submitted inaccurate 4G coverage maps.
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T-Mobile US set to fight $91m FCC fine
T-Mobile US (TMUS) is preparing to fight a whopping $91.6m (€85.6m) fine proposed by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for the sale of real-time customer location data to third parties.
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Magyar Telekom fined for misleading advertising
Magyar Telekom was fined HUF 670m (€1.9m) by competition authority Gazdasági Versenyhivatal for misleading advertising.
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OME-OTE settles strike action dispute
OME-OTE, the union of OTE Group employees that has recently been leading strike action against the operator, agreed a new Collective Labour Agreement with senior management.
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Operators keep hold of licence fee ‘windfall’
Telefónica gains a win in a licence fee dispute. Group looks set to keep £54m returned, after courts find against Ofcom once more.
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Phones 4u lawyers claim evidence “mysteriously lost”
Phones 4u administrators expected to highlight an absence of information from former Group management as reason for suspicion that O2 UK may have put undue commercial pressure on the retailer.