Benoit Felten

It was great talking to @informationlabs.org about our latest report on mandated ip interconnection dispute resolution…

First (sizeable) country in Europe to switch its copper network off.

Au cas où ça n'était pas ton intention, Breitbart est un site d'extrême droite Américaine dont les "informations" ne sont pas forcément fiables (euphémisme)...

Interesting. I'd be curious to see what the business model looks like.

Of these 5.3 million fibre retail subscriptions, Telekom's share was just about 28% or 1.47 million. Telekom is the place where copper goes if it wants to enjoy a long life.

Some argue that there is no risk to our digital sovereignty because "business will always prevail", this proves them wrong. Public contracts in EU *must* be delivered by companies with no risk of extrajudicial interference (US, China, etc.) FR has been pushing for this at EU level, it's high time.

US Copyright Office prepublication: "making commercial use of vast troves of copyrighted works to produce expressive content that competes with them in existing markets, especially where this is accomplished through illegal access, goes beyond established fair use boundaries."
www.copyright.gov/ai/

I would argue it makes sense (within reason) as a metric to assess operators’ revenue, not as a metric for international comparisons.

I imagine you’ll have something to say about this @disruptivedean.bsky.social !!!

Wikimedia Foundation brings legal challenge to new UK Online Safety Act requirements On 8 May, 2025, the Wikimedia Foundation announced that it is challenging the lawfulness of a new element of the UK’s Online Safety Act (OSA) that determines what duties a website has under t…

Au Royaume-Uni, la fondation #Wikimedia annonce contester plusieurs dispositions de la loi sur la sécurité en ligne, notamment celles qui imposent des obligations réglementaires supplémentaires aux plateformes considérées comme plus risquées. À suivre donc.
diff.wikimedia.org/2025/05/08/w...

I know. Could be a change in strategy, I agree, I would just find it surprising ;-)

An integrated TDC would seem to be counter to Macquarie's focus on infrastructure. Curious to see where this goes.

May infringements package: key decisions Overview by policy area In its regular package of infringement decisions, the European Commission takes legal action against Member States that fail to comply with their obligations under EU law. Thes

EU: #NIS2: The European Commission today sent a reasoned opinion to 19 EU Member States for failing to notify full transposition of the NIS2 Directive (Directive (EU) 2022/2555) into their national legislation.

ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

Nos missions | Arcep 🔎 L’Arcep, dans sa formation de règlement des différends, de poursuite et d’instruction (https://lnkd.in/eMbFaw7j) veille au bon respect par les opérateurs de leurs obligations.   Dans le cadre du sui...

In the context of their arbitration procedures, Arcep issued formal notices on three counts today:
- mobile coverage to all four national operators,
- FTTH completeness for three specific networks,
- coverage obligations for Orange in less dense areas.

www.linkedin.com/posts/arcep_...

Very interesting development. I've been wondering for a while now if EU regulators genuinely did not understand the name of the game, or if they have been deliberately looking away... I guess we will know soon.

FWA is driving demand for cell towers Cell tower owners are now watching the fixed wireless access (FWA) sector as a major driver for their business. It's not entirely clear how that trend will play out in network operator economics.

Cell tower owners are now watching the fixed wireless access (FWA) sector as a major driver for their business. It's not entirely clear how that trend will play out in network operator economics. www.lightreading.com/fixed-wirele...

What’s N78 ?

Je demande à voir. A l’époque où je passais du temps (trop) sur FB il était évident qu’ils ne faisaient rien pour limiter le contenu illicite ou spam.

Cory Doctorow's (@pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy) account of "Careless People", a book by an ex-Meta policy employee is really worth a read, and not just because Meta tried to get it banned: pluralistic.net/2025/04/23/z...

A bit too early to really take stock, but this could be a sign of some degree of sobering up...

There is a serious lack of understanding of the cost models of LEO satellites. It would be really great to see some publicly available work on the costs, it would help policy makers and operators figure out how much of a threat this really is...

EU fines Apple €500M and Meta €200M for breaking Europe’s digital rules The highly anticipated penalties are the first to be issued under the bloc’s Digital Markets Act.

First round of DMA fines. I have to confess awaiting with some trepidation what will befall X...

www.politico.eu/article/eu-f...?

Have a Mac? You Should Get These 5 Utilities Apple's built-in tools aren't always enough.

Have a Mac? You Should Get These 5 Utilities www.howtogeek.com/have-a-mac-y...

A l'heure où en 🇫🇷 certains voudraient voir le blocage (actuellement en #DNS, la moins pire des solutions) évoluer sur du blocage IP, ce qui arrive en 🇪🇸 doit au contraire inciter à la prudence, avec du surblocage : tous les utilisateurs #Cloudflare en croix

lists.nanog.org/archives/lis...

I would imagine that this is related to a higher reliance on FWA solutions in rural areas than in other countries. Obviously, correlating this to public spending in connectivity would yield interesting results. I'd do it, but it's hard to access that data...

Curieux de voir ce que ça va vouloir dire en pratique. Interdiction d'utilisation ou interdiction de possession? Il me semble que le collège de ma fille n'autorise pas l'utilisation du téléphone dans l'enceinte du collège. C'est de ça dont on parle ici ?

Tariffs

Meanwhile, this just out, perfectly encapsulates the situation: xkcd.com/3073/

I now had time to read the link to the article you sent. The number isn't very clear, but I understand it to be that upsell via the customer service is up 40%. That's frankly not bad, but I imagine probably amounts to a couple % overall sales increase (still not bad, but not 40%...)

Oh well, turns out it was all a bit of fun anyway...

The State of Personal Online Security and Confidentiality | SXSW LIVE YouTube video by SXSW

Really excellent interview of Meredith Whittaker about not only Signal itself but the way the data ecosystem has perverted a lot of the Silicon valley initial visions and values. Really worth your time. #privacy #security