Daniel Preiskel is participating in the MVNO workshop at a MWC/CTIA in San Francisco run by the Besen Group and will then in his role on the MEF EMEA Board be participating in the MEF Consumer Trust event on Wednesday. For further details, feel free to email Daniel.
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…
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…
In April, the FAS and Google ended their two-year long dispute over Google’s pre-installation and self promotion of only its own products on all Android devices sold in Russia. Google eventually agreed to pay fines and adopted a non-discrimination remedy. The Android case is pending before the EU. The press releases and media communication from the FAS in…
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…
Preiskel’s Stephen Dnes shares some thoughts on the Google case. In professional sport, it would be unusual to take seven to ten years to warm up for an event. The accurate word for that activity would perhaps be “spectator”: a champion in the same sense that a viewer of televised golf might be the next…
Danny Preiskel’s latest article for the Mobile Ecosystem Forum (MEF) blog “Embracing Consumer Trust and GDPR” was published yesterday. The post contains Danny’s views on the importance of the forthcoming GDPR and shares details of the GDPR conference to be held in Milan on June 15th, put together by Preiskel & Co and other Lexing Network specialised tech…
On 16th March 2017 EU Commissioner for Competition, Margrethe Vestager made an important speech concerning competition policy for the technology sector. She spoke about the way that computer algorithms are being used in ways that could facilitate breach of the law. Her comments covered issues arising from the Google investigation, concerns raised about social media and,…
On 10 January 2017 the European Commission has adopted a Proposal for a Regulation concerning the respect for private life and the protection of personal data in electronic communications (“the draft e-Privacy Regulation” or “the Proposal”) which will repeal the Directive 2002/58/EC on privacy and electronic communications (the “e-Privacy Directive”). The draft e-Privacy Regulation provides…
As well as being a senior consultant here at Preiskel, I am a writer and journalist about law and policy matters. Since June I have been writing a lot about Brexit. Brexit is, for me, fascinating. There is complexity, as it brings together policy and law, trade and economics, and political and constitutional issues. And…
