It has been reported that Google has had to issue refunds to a number of advertisers, after the advertisements they placed with the company were run on website with invalid traffic. In the online advertising market, the advertiser pays more the more traffic the website its advertisement is placed on generates. The advertisements in question were…
ICOMP has called for the publication of Google’s remedy proposals to the European Commission, along with the Commission’s Decision in the Google Shopping investigation. The Commission announced its finding on 27 June 2017, outlining that it had found Google to have abused its dominance with regards to its Google Shopping product. As well as being…
On his Jack of Kent blog, David Allen Green has shared a number of interesting links regarding the Brexit campaign, the EU negotiating position, the UK’s negotiating position, and “exit issues”.
You can read the blog post here.
In discussing how Android users in Russia are now being asked what default search engine they would like in Chrome Mobile, a remedy agreed between Google and Russia’s FAS following an antitrust probe in the country, Politico quoted Tim Cowen‘s blog post on Google remedies: “It may be that the FAS points the way both…
Preiskel & Co Partner Tim Cowen shares some thoughts on Senator Orrin Hatch’s recent comments on antitrust policy in the first of our blog series on “Hipster Antitrust”. Predictable criticisms of the Better Deal in the USA arose in a speech from Senator Orrin Hatch (Republican). To be fair to Senator Hatch, these criticisms…
The Government has today published a press release detailing its plans for a new Data Protection Bill. The Bill will bring the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) into UK law. The GDPR will come into force on 25 May 2018. Anyone looking for advice on compliance with data protection laws, and how to prepare…
Preiskel & Co are co-hosting a seminar with CEG Europe on the afternoon of 11 September 2017. The event will comprise of the following three panel discussions: Regulation of Oligopoly in telecoms markets: Issues for infrastructure investment. Considerations of concentration on the value chain (use of networks by content players and ISPs and the impact on the…
The Competition Appeal Tribunal has today ruled that Ofcom’s BCMR decision be quashed and remitted to the regulator. The BCMR decision was published in April 2016. BT, CityFibre, and TalkTalk launched appeals against various aspects of the decision in June 2016 – the “BCMR Appeals”. The Competition Appeal Tribunal handed down a ruling today, finding…
ITSPA has today launched its new Data Retention Guidance document, produced in collaboration with Preiskel & Co LLP. The document is available to ITSPA members; the link can be found here.
Anyone seeking advice on Data Retention, or the GDPR more generally, should contact Danny Preiskel or Jose Saras.
The new Electronic Communications Code is due to come into force in late Autumn 2017. The New Code, when in force, will bring important changes relating to rent and private landlord’s rights. In theory, life for electronic communications providers who construct networks should be better and more certain than under the Old Code. This is…
