Simon Assion is a Bird & Bird associate based in the Frankfurt office, working in the Commercial Practice Group. He specialises in communications law, particularly regarding cases and projects where different fields of law apply, such as telecommunications law, copyright law, competition law, media law and data protection law.
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03 February 2017
The history of “disrupted” industries has one thing in common: At the beginning, the prevailing view in the industry is always that disruption could not happen to it. Persons tend to believe that they...
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28 June 2016
On 6 June 2016, BEREC (the “Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications”) issued a first proposal of ‘Guidelines on Net Neutrality’ (PDF), following an instruction laid down in Art. 5 (3)...
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27 May 2016
This article is part of a series.
Click here to read part 1 (The basics).
Click here to read part 2 (Exceptions, Justifications and Special Services).
In summary, it can be said that...
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26 May 2016
When the TSM Regulation with new binding rules for Net Neutrality was adopted, many activists claimed that the new rules were more an “abolition” of net neutrality but an introduction. Why did...