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The ECJ issued a landmark decision on 8 April 2014 invalidating the retention of telecommunication traffic and location data by telecom service providers.

In an investigation led by the Public Prosecutor's Office, the Dutch FIOD last week conducted raids on two homes and arrested one individual suspected of transferring bitcoins...

In one of our previous newsletters we described the rules laid down in the Telecommunications Act regarding the sending of marketing information by e-mail.

The Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets (“ACM”) has prohibited Glaspoort, a joint venture between KPN and APG, from acquiring parts of Delta Fiber Nederland’s fiber-optic networks.

In a press release of 21 November 2013, the Dutch Competition Authority (ACM) announced that it would terminate its investigation into a possible price-fixing cartel on the market of mobile telecommunications and accept binding commitments from the three major mobile providers in the Netherlands, T-Mobile, KPN and Vodafone.

The draft bill followed the April 2014 ECJ decision nullifying the European Data Retention Directive.

The scenery of the Dutch telecommunications sector has changed drastically in the last two months.

On May 25, 2026, the Dutch government blocked the proposed acquisition of Dutch cloud services provider Solvinity by U.S.-based Kyndryl, citing alleged public interest concerns under the Netherlands...

The EU General Court recently confirmed the European Commission’s broad investigative powers when conducting a dawn raid.

Direct marketing is in the spotlight. The ACM is already enforcing existing rules for telemarketing more strictly, while stricter rules are on the way. In addition, with the update of the Code for Distribution of Advertisements by Email ("Email Code"), the rules for email marketing have been tightened.

We have asked Anna den Hartog, head of our TMT and Data Protection practices at our Dutch office Eversheds Faasen to give us her thoughts on some of the key changes in law relevant for the TMT sector in the Netherlands.

On 6 May 2021, the Netherlands Authority for Consumers & Markets ("ACM") published its updated market study ("FttH report") into the roll-out in the Netherlands of fibre-optic broadband networks...

In the near future there will be new rules on the use of certain types of internet cookies, as a result of amendments to the Dutch Telecommunications Act. The amendments are intended to implement an EU directive and should be in force by 25 May 2011