Financial Times

It takes a brave soul to call a recovery in European telecommunications. Yet there are a few, tentative signs that the struggling sector may be ringing in the changes. Providers of mobile telecommunications services have long been stuck in a value trap. Recently, however, there have been a few positive signals. The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority approved Vodafone’s merger with Three UK without imposing the feared “structural” remedies. That’s good news for Vodafone itself.

Two years ago, a New York company enforced an “attorney exclusion list” at its venues, including Madison Square Garden and Radio City Music Hall, sparking a civil rights clash. Using artificial intelligence-enabled facial recognition technology, MSG Entertainment identified lawyers from firms involved in litigation against the company and barred them from entering concerts, shows and ice hockey and basketball games. Naturally, being lawyers, they sued, denouncing the ban as dystopian.