2023-11-14 14:16:35
Arcep
• Arcep: hearing of Laure de La Raudière, president, by the economic affairs committee of the National Assembly Wednesday November 15 at 9:30 a.m. (assembly-national.fr)
• “Call for applications – member of the Arcep college: on February 16, 2024, the mandate of Joëlle Cottenye, appointed by the President of the Senate on February 16, 2018, will end / In order to respect gender parity within the college of Arcep, article L. 130 of the Postal and Electronic Communications Code requires the President of the Senate to appoint a woman, aged less than sixty-six years at the time of her appointment / Applications must be sent, by December 15, 2023”: Press release Senate
• I alert Arcep ! : an online platform for reporting network problems (service-public.fr)
Digital transition
• “Statement from Avicca upon the announcement of the sanction pronounced by Arcep for non-compliance with commitments L33-13: the Senator of Ain and President of Avicca, Patrick Chaize welcomes the decision of the Arcep which shows that the Independent Authority has authority and acts in complete independence”: Press release Bird
• “Agreement between the State and the operator Orange of November 7, 2023: Avicca and its President Patrick Chaize welcome the presentation of the new L33-13 agreement made by Minister Jean-Noël Barrot”: Press release Bird
• Communities are waiting for Arcep to take a turn on the enforceable right to connection / The possibility for the authority to sanction Orange if it does not satisfy a connection request is in fact part of the agreement between the operator and the government to complete the fiber deployment. But for Avicca, “this point requires clarification”. The association wonders how residents will be able to assert this enforceable right (Context)
Fair share
• HBD : Belgium’s telecoms watchdog (IBPT) is celebrating its 30th anniversary today and has invited the tech bubble to the party, starting this afternoon at Autoworld, the national car museum located in the Cinquantaine Park / IBPT published its analysis of the network fees proposal. The need for payments from content providers to network operators “is not sufficiently demonstrated,” it reads, citing a “mutual dependency“ between the two (Politico)
• BIPT opposed to the idea of taxing Big Tech to finance telecom networks / The regulator considers that the need to force internet platforms to pay is not sufficiently established (Litter)
• The decline of SMS will cause operators to lose $3 billion, according to Juniper Research / A market worth $9 billion in 2028 / European operators hope that platforms will one day pay for the use of their networks. This is the whole debate around “Fair Share”. Brussels launched a consultation on the subject at the start of 2023, but the idea of this “fair contribution” is far from being unanimously accepted in the bloc of Twenty-Seven and still remains to be defined (The Echos)
Regulation of digital platforms
• How Big Tech could challenge the EU’s digital antitrust rules / Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, ByteDance, Meta Platforms, and Microsoft have until Thursday to challenge the EU’s initial decisions (Politico)
People
• Laura Létourneau will lift a corner of the veil on ecological planning in the “Platform State” style / Commissioned by Matignon to apply its “Platform State” method to the General Secretariat for Ecological Planning, Laura will speak on her site “ digital and data for ecology” Tuesday November 21 during the GreenTech Forum (Context)
• Montpellier launches the 1st citizens’ convention on AI in France: “I am here in the role of an information dealer”: Cédric Villani (La Tribune)
Spatial
• “We are going to open the way to manned exploration”: Claudie Haigneré, first French woman to become an astronaut (et Minister delegate for Research and new technologies 2002-2004) returns to the renewed global interest in the exploration of the Moon, the growing role of private companies and the place of Europe in this dynamic (The Tribune)
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