http://www.contentandcarrier.eu european electronic communications & media law Mon, 06 Sep 2010 13:54:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Just a brief note: Margin squeeze issues in telecommunications are keeping the Commission and the courts well occupied (for the Commission, see the recent comments in Article 7 procedures to Greek and Italian notifications [EL/2010/1113, IT/2010/1103]; for the courts see the opinion of advocate general Mazák just last week ... http://www.contentandcarrier.eu/?p=407 Advocate general Jàn Mazák already wrote the opinion in the Deutsche Telekom margin squeeze case, which is still pending at the European Court of Justice (judgment probably due some time this autumn) - and today he delivered his opinion in another telecommunications margin squeeze case: C-52/09 TeliaSonera. And while the ... http://www.contentandcarrier.eu/?p=406 In keeping track with the telecommunications and broadcasting case law of the ECJ, here is a brief roundup of cases the Court decided right before summer recess, plus a (highly speculative, as ever) preview of what's coming up next: 1.  ECJ judgment of 1 July 2010, C-99/09 Polska Telefonia ... http://www.contentandcarrier.eu/?p=405 In Belgium, all telephone service providers have to offer special "social" tariff options as part of a universal service obligations (other universal service obligations are placed only on specific providers). The costs for these special tariffs are distributed amongst all operators in relation to their share of "social tariff"-customers. This ... http://www.contentandcarrier.eu/?p=404 Today's opinion of advocate general Sharpston in the joined cases C-92/09 Schecke and C-93/09 Hartmut Eifert do not provide new insights into the validity of the data retention directive, as Sharpston declined to answer the two questions addressing this issue that had been put to the ECJ by a German ... http://www.contentandcarrier.eu/?p=403