Complaining about the regulatory landscape has been de rigueur in European telecoms for many a long year.

The Information Commissioner’s Office has claimed a victory for UK consumers after getting a public commitment from WhatsApp not to share personal data with Facebook.

Vodafone has said it is “disappointed” with Ofcom after the UK regulator announced an investigation into its traffic management practices on net neutrality grounds.

Vodafone CEO Vittorio Colao claimed 5G could help to renew the relationship between citizens and society in the face of rising populism, as his counterpart at Telefónica hailed the “unprecedented speed and reach” of other new technologies. 

Ofcom’s new Chairman has begun work as the regulator prepares for its largest spectrum auction in five years.

Carphone Warehouse has become the latest telecoms provider to be fined by the UK’s privacy regulator for failing to prevent a data breach.

Iliad's take-over of eir, CityFibre's new fibre deal and Vodafone's new head of IoT feature in our round-up of the major news stories from the holiday period.

The UK Government has lined up a veteran of the TV industry to head up telecoms regulator Ofcom.

BT, Sky, TalkTalk, Virgin Media and Zen Internet have all signed up to provide UK customers with automatic compensation for problems with fixed line broadband and telephony services.

TIM is strengthening its ties with majority shareholder Vivendi after creating a content JV with the French company's pay-TV arm Canal+.

Ofcom is planning to “close the gap” between what speeds UK broadband providers are advertising and what they deliver.

Vodafone Ireland has credited customers with €2.5 million and stumped up €250,000 to pay for a roaming related fine levied by the country’s regulator.

The former CEO of Telia and two execs from its Eurasia division have been indicted over the fraud scandal that has cost it $965 million.

Telia will pay just shy of $1 billion to settle a corruption investigation into its opco in Uzbekistan, as three former employees face further charges from the Swedish Prosecution Authority.

Italy’s financial regulator Consob has ruled that Vivendi holds de facto control of TIM, sparking a formal appeal from Vivendi and a legal threat from the telco.

The UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office has slapped TalkTalk with a £100,000 fine for breaching the Data Protection Act.

Regional UK operator KCOM has been hit with a £900,000 fine after failing to provide reliable calling services to emergency services.

BT has proposed to provide universal broadband across the UK by 2020 in an attempt to stave off further regulation.

Ofcom has set up a dedicated team to monitor the legal separation of BT and Openreach, as the UK’s largest provider of broadband infrastructure looks to begin life as a more independent company.

The proposed merger between Twenty-First Century Fox and Sky is set to face further scrutiny from the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority.