15 June 2016 BEREC Chair Wilhelm Eschweiler met the ITRE Committee-Working Group on the Digital Union of the European Parliament to discuss the governance of the telecommunications market. During his presentation, Wilhelm Eschweiler introduced BEREC’s...

Which end-users are protected by the Regulation, and how?

The Regulation establishes rights in relation to the open internet for “end-users”. Using the legal definitions provided in the EU regulatory framework for electronic communications, BEREC...

What transparency requirements does the Regulation introduce for ISPs?

The Regulation requires ISPs to provide information about their internet access services, such as speeds, data caps, and any traffic management measures applied to their service,...

What are specialised services and how are they relevant to the Regulation?

BEREC uses the term ‘specialised services’ as a short expression for a longer term used in the Regulation: “services other than internet access...

What is traffic management and what is “equal treatment”?

When end-users communicate over the Internet, data traffic is sent between the end-users’ terminals. The traffic is sent through the networks of the ISPs through which...

The BEREC Chair 2016 Mr. Wilhelm Eschweiler recently participated in the Internet and Cable Expo (INTX), which took place on 17 May 2016 in Boston (USA) where he expressed some views on the review of...

The presentation was given to the ITU-EC Regional Conference on Broadband Services and Infrastructure Mapping, held in Poland on 11-12 April 2016. The delegates included government officials from the European Commission and European countries; European...