32nd Annual IBA Communications and Competition Law Conference
17 Apr - 18 Apr 2023
Session information
The changing world of telecommunications infrastructure – what are the main regulatory and antitrust implications?
Tuesday 18 April (0945 - 1100)
Committee(s)
Antitrust Section
(Lead)
Communications Law Committee
(Lead)
Description
In order to deploy new telecoms infrastructure (such as FTTH and 5G) quickly and in a cost-effective manner, various new forms of doing business have emerged (sharing access and infrastructure, co-investments and co-location models, involving PE funds, separating network and services or creating TowerCos or FiberCos). These models raise a myriad of questions and challenges both from a regulatory and an antitrust/state aid perspective and is being very closed looked at in the European Union and all around the world (see the upcoming Connectivity Infrastructure Act in the European Union or the recent T-Mobile/O2/CETIN decision by the European Commission). This panel
will dig deep into these issues and discuss their implications for telecoms companies.
Session / Workshop Chair(s)
| Janet Hui | JunHe LLP, Beijing, China; Co-Chair, Antitrust Section |
| Guilherme Ribas | TozziniFreire Advogados, São Paulo, Brazil; Website Officer, Communications Law Committee |
Speakers
| Nana Adjoa Asante | National Communications Authority, Accra, Ghana |
| Mario Girasole | TIM Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
| Ermelinda Spinelli | Freshfields, Milan, Italy |
| Christopher Watson | CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang, London, England; Co-Chair, IBA Diversity & Inclusion Council |