internet lab podcast | 1:1 with Frode Sørensen (Norwegian Communications Authority)
Channel: information labs
Date: 2022-10-27

📌Episode Highlights
⏲️[00:00] Intro
⏲️[01:18] Q1 - How do you interpret the relationship between users accessing more content and services online and the impact this may have on telcos?
⏲️[04:03] Q2 - What are the inherent dangers (if any) of Big Tech being requested to pay for the network of telcos?
⏲️[07:37] Q3 - Do you think it is appropriate to compare the contribution of Big Tech and telcos in infrastructure, as suggested by some?
⏲️[12:15] Soapbox moment
⏲️[12:59] Outro

📌About Our Guest
🎙️ Frode Sørensen | Senior Adviser, Norwegian Communications Authority
🐦 https://twitter.com/ipfrode
🌐 BEREC preliminary assessment of the underlying assumptions of payments from large CAPs to ISPs
https://www.berec.europa.eu/en/document-categories/berec/opinions/berec-preliminary-assessment-of-the-underlying-assumptions-of-payments-from-large-caps-to-isps
🌐 Draft BEREC Report on the Internet Ecosystem
https://www.berec.europa.eu/en/document-categories/berec/public-consultations/draft-berec-report-on-the-internet-ecosystem
🌐 Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (BEREC)
https://www.berec.europa.eu/
🌐 Norwegian Communications Authority (Nkom)
https://www.nkom.no

Frode Sørensen is a Senior Adviser at the Norwegian Communications Authority (Nkom) and he holds a Master of Science degree from the University of Oslo. Frode has been leading the development of the Norwegian net neutrality policy at Nkom since 2007. He has been Chair of BEREC Net Neutrality Expert Working Group 2010-2018. The Expert Working Group developed BEREC’s net neutrality guidelines which were published in 2016. Frode is still an active member in the BEREC Open Internet Working Group, representing Nkom. Since 2019 Frode has been representing Norway in the Governmental Advisory Committee in ICANN. Frode has more than thirty years of experience in telecommunications and has previously worked at Agder University, Telenor and Ericsson and he is the author of several books on Internet technology.