Look around any international conference today and a good share of the room will be online on a travel eSIM. That was certainly true at the International Institute of Communications (IIC) Annual Conference in Kuala Lumpur last month, where I joined Graeme Di Rollo, Senior Legal Counsel at Airalo for a fireside chat on a question regulators across the world are now grappling with: how should a product that is global by design be regulated by authorities that are, by definition

I sat on the CMA panel that required Ecolab to sell Holchem in 2019, a case in which the parties put forward an efficiency claim with a figure attached but very little evidence behind it.[1] The rules on how competition authorities treat claims of this kind have now changed on both sides of the Channel. The test itself has moved very little, but the authorities are saying more openly that they will listen, which puts more weight than ever on whether parties can evidence what

Ofcom is shifting the goal of connectivity policy from coverage to quality, betting that transparency will push operators to improve. But do consumers reward quality? The evidence on switching is mixed. Speaking at Connected Britain on 9 September, Ofcom's Natalie Black set out the shift in plain terms: “Coverage on a map is not the same as a connection people can count on,” and “nobody cares how many bars they have if their video call freezes. They care whether it works.”[1]