We hear a lot these days about the need to guarantee the security of global supply chains (GVCs) across a number of critical sectors. This is most visible in the automotive industry. Car...

Today in Pittsburgh, the newly created EU-US Trade and Tech Council (TCC) holds its first meeting. The stakes are high and according to the official TTC agenda, a new Transatlantic deal on data is...

What this week’s summitry means for tech policy The past week of summitry was preceded by President Biden's promise to re-engage and reset – or reel in – the oldest (but not necessarily the...

Brian Williamson, a Partner at consultancy Communications Chambers. The views in this blog are his own. The European Commission published a proposed legal framework for regulation of Artificial...

By Carl Schonander, Tech Policy Executive, Global Digital Finance Americas Consultant, Former U.S. Diplomat  Last month,  Daniel S. Hamilton and Joseph Quinlan released their annual survey...

Author thanks Claudia Lozano for her research assistance Those who call for non-WTO compliant support for O-RAN are either indifferent or nescient about how our trade negotiators try to uphold a...

Radio access networks account for just 4% of operators’ cost. So how did it become a public policy discussion? In one of the more surprising news to come out of Sweden, we read that the CEO of...

Consumers are supposed to be the major beneficiaries of trade deals, receiving greater choice at lower prices as the result of the removal of barriers to trade. Given this, there is often frustration...

Once in a while, a topic that seems abstruse unexpectedly becomes a subject of broader public debate. When we published our paper on Open RAN, we thought only a handful telecom regulators would be...

Our forthcoming policy brief on Open RAN explores the increasing politicisation of the 5G rollout around the world. In particular, the radio access networks (RAN) that make up the radio installations...