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ECJ rules on the validity of the Roaming Regulation On 8 June 2010, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) rejected the attempt by various leading European mobile network operators (MNOs) to challenge the validity of a cap imposed by the EU on the roaming ... Read more	Kingsway Hall sees Red Kingsway Hall Hotel Ltd v Red Sky IT (Hounslow) Ltd [2010] examines the use and enforceability of exclusion clauses in a contract for the provision of software and related services. In the wake of BSkyB ... Read more
Liability: Transfield revisted In IHL169 we wrote of the effect of the House of Lords judgment in Transfield Shipping Inc v Mercator Shipping Inc [2008] (also referred to as The Achilleas), which cast some doubt on the application ... Read more	Mobiles win as Ofcom consults on control On 20 April 2010, the Court of Appeal upheld an appeal by mobile operators Telefónica O2, T-Mobile, Vodafone and Orange, challenging the Competition Appeal Tribunal’s (CAT) power to direct Ofcom to revise its price controls ... Read more
E-tendering On 24 March 2010, the Office of Government Commerce (OGC) published guidance (‘Implementing e-tendering’ (the Guidance)) on the implementation of e-tendering as part of the public procurement process. The release of the Guidance comes at ... Read more	BT to open superfast broadband network to rivals On 23 March 2010, Ofcom published two consultation papers setting out its analysis of the state of competition in the wholesale local access (WLA) market (which concerns fixed telecommunications infrastructure) and the wholesale broadband access ... Read more
Commission clears Orange and T-Mobile merger with conditions On 1 March 2010, the European Commission conditionally cleared the proposed merger between Orange UK Ltd (Orange) and T-Mobile (UK) Ltd (T-Mobile), during phase one of its investigation. To resolve the Commission’s competition concerns, the ... Read more	Centrica v Accenture Draftsmen beware: ‘standard’ exclusion clauses might not always provide the protection that is expected. This article focuses on Field J’s recent judgment in GB Gas Holdings Ltd (Centrica) v Accenture (UK) Ltd & ors [2009]. ... Read more
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