BEREC questioned the need for more harmonised conditions for numbering management within the EU and a proposed “fundamental shift in the governance” towards a centralised Union-level approach.

The assembly of European telecoms regulators also wants to simplify the voluntary conciliation mechanism and maintain the concept of Very High Capacity Networks (VHCN) in its position papers on the proposed Digital Networks Act.

The UK regulator found that Virgin Media’s procedures prevented or delayed customers from terminating their contracts and switching to another provider. According to Ofcom, the failings affected millions of customer calls between January 2022 and September 2024.

BEREC argued that the Single Passport proposal should not be taken forward, because of its complexity, increased bureaucratic burden, barriers for the effective enforcement of regulatory tasks, uneven distribution of administrative duties among NRAs, forum shopping, legal uncertainty and impact on NRA’s financing and independence

The Latvian regulator proposed to reduce certain fibre VULA prices outside Riga after finding a margin squeeze. The Commission did not object but criticised SPRK for not notifying the WACC methodology and calculation underpinning the test.

The Croatian telecoms regulator, HAKOM, completed its margin squeeze test methodology that it will apply from 1 January 2027 on the wholesale markets for dedicated capacity (market 2/2020) and for trunk segments of leased lines (market 14/2003).