Ms Virkkunen (EPP, Finland) stayed on script during her confirmation hearing in the European Parliament. She announced a push to cut bureaucracy in the digital sector, starting with telecoms and cybersecurity.

The Nicaraguan national parliament approved a new general telecommunications law. The new law has rules on national and foreign satellite systems, a regulatory sandbox to foster innovation, infrastructure sharing and a framework to promote competition. TELCOR will remain as the telecoms and spectrum regulatory authority. The law comes into force on 6 November 2025.

The Canadian regulator, CRTC, allowed regional wireless operators to use wholesale mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) access to serve enterprise and internet of things (IoT) customers. Incumbent operators must amend their offers to remove existing IoT restrictions by 8 November 2024.

In nine European countries, the national symmetric obligations go beyond the scope set by the Broadband Cost Reduction Directive or the Gigabit Infrastructure Act.

The Canadian telecoms regulator, CRTC, required mobile operators to set new wholesale national roaming rates through commercial negotiations with each other. If mobile operators cannot reach an agreement, the CRTC would set the rates using a final offer arbitration process. In addition, the CRTC called on large mobile operators to provide affordable international roaming options.

BEREC, the assembly of European telecoms regulators, also adopted reports on the implementation of the geographical survey of broadband networks, on edge and cloud computing and on the entry of big tech into the telecoms markets.