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MARCH 8, 2023

An Iraqi telecom operator is free to subpoena Dechert LLP for discovery in an ongoing commercial arbitration before the International Chamber of Commerce after a federal judge in Pennsylvania granted the company's motion on Wednesday.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Supreme Court cases — and while most telecom attorneys likely agree that the Federal Communications Commission is guilty of overrelying on it, the problem is not the doctrine itself, says Carl Northrop at Telecommunications Law Professionals.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

The FCC also plans to mandate prison telecom companies to provide video call services for incarcerated people with communication disabilities and who speak American Sign Language. The new rules will be voted on by the commission on Sept. 29, 2022.

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Law 360

MAY 4, 2023

An investment adviser based in New York City wants to share the revenue from an October 2021 business deal involving its former client, an Ecuadorian telecom, pressing a federal judge to compel arbitration so it can recover funds that it claims the telecom has withheld.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has adopted an order ending China Telecom (Americas) Corporation’s ability to operate in the United States. The post FCC revokes China Telecom’s authority to operate in the US appeared first on JURIST - News - Legal News & Commentary.

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Mondaq

DECEMBER 4, 2021

Welcome to the Tech & Telecom Weekly, an e-newsletter keeping you apprised of the latest developments in the telecommunications and high-tech industries.

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JURIST

JANUARY 28, 2024

Yunus was previously sentenced to six month imprisonment for labour law violations in his company Garameen Telecom. Yunus, who is the Chairman of Garameen Telecom, was sentenced alongside three of its directors, Ashraful Hassan, Nurjahan Begum, and M Shahjahan. Following this bail order, an appeal will now be heard against his case.

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Law 360

APRIL 24, 2024

A group of WOM SA noteholders asked a Delaware bankruptcy judge to dismiss the Chilean cellphone network operator's Chapter 11 case, saying the company has no connections with the United States and court's here don't have jurisdiction over the company's assets.

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JURIST

JANUARY 23, 2024

Yunus and three associates from Grameen Telecom , a company founded by Yunus, were convicted by a Bangladeshi labor court for violating the country’s labor laws. Grameen Telecom argued that employees were on contractual terms and their not-for-profit status exempted them from profit allocation requirements.

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Mondaq

AUGUST 9, 2022

The European Electronic Communications Code (the "EECC") is expanding the remit of national telecoms regulation across the EU to cover ‘interpersonal communication services' ("ICS") as well as traditional telecoms services.

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JANUARY 3, 2024

A Bangladeshi labor court convicted Nobel Peace Laureate Muhammad Yunus and three of his associates from Grameen Telecom, a company founded by Yunus, for violating the country’s labor laws. In 1997, Yunus also founded Grameen Telecom , aiming to enhance telecommunication services in rural areas through the Village Phone Programme.

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Law 360

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Consolidated Communications Holdings Inc. said Monday it is being sold to Searchlight Capital Partners LP and the British Columbia Investment Management Corp. in an all-cash, take-private deal that values the Illinois-based telecommunications company at roughly $3.1

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Law 360

JULY 31, 2023

Canadian company Patent Armory on Monday accused headphone makers Sonos and Sennheiser, along with two other companies, of infringing its telecommunication intellectual property, building onto a three-month patent litigation campaign against companies like Reddit, Microsoft and Samsung.

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Law 360

JANUARY 12, 2022

The Federal Communications Commission will consider issuing new rules to make telecom customers more quickly aware of personal data breaches under a plan floated Wednesday.

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Law 360

MARCH 18, 2024

The founder and former CEO of a Florida-headquartered telecommunications infrastructure building company has sued the head of an investment firm and others Monday in Delaware's Court of Chancery, accusing them of carrying out a "fraudulent scheme" to wrest control of the business.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit Tuesday denied China Telecom Corporation’s challenge to the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) order revoking the Chinese state-owned telecommunications company’s authority to operate in the US. China Telecom appealed the decision.

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Law 360

AUGUST 23, 2023

A Canadian company told a Texas federal court that a life insurance company infringed its telecommunication intellectual property, building onto a three-month patent litigation campaign against companies such as Reddit, Microsoft and Samsung.

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Law 360

APRIL 5, 2024

One of Chile's largest cellphone operators WOM SA has replaced its CEO days after it filed for bankruptcy in Delaware, the company announced, with the ousted executive alleging shareholders at the company failed to deliver on new sources of funding promised last fall.

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Mondaq

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Welcome to the Tech & Telecom Weekly, an e-newsletter keeping you apprised of the latest developments in the telecommunications and high-tech industries.

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Mondaq

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Welcome to the Tech & Telecom Weekly, an e-newsletter keeping you apprised of the latest developments in the telecommunications and high-tech industries.

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Law 360

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Consolidated Communications Holdings Inc. shareholder Wildcat Capital Management issued a letter to Consolidated on Friday opposing the Illinois-based telecommunications company's planned $3.1 billion take-private deal with a pair of investment fund managers, claiming that the deal undervalues the company by nearly $1 billion.

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APRIL 30, 2020

But for two businesses that support the telecom industry, the reality has been more nuanced. And for Airespring, a midstream service provider that works with Verizon, AT&T and other telecom giants, calls went down, then bounced back according to its general counsel Rod Rummelsburg. The stories are hosted on Vanguard’s blog.

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Law 360

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The former CEO and CFO of bankrupt telecommunications software provider Pareteum Corp. were arrested Thursday for allegedly booking nonbinding purchase orders in order to inflate the company's revenues by $42 million.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 22, 2023

The bill seeks to eliminate obstacles to the development of telecom infrastructure in the country as well as to simplify and restructure the telecom regulatory and licensing framework. Among other things, the bill allows the government to temporarily take control of telecom services in the interest of national security.

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Law 360

APRIL 18, 2024

The city of Pittsburgh has created a new fee schedule for small wireless communications facilities, which AT&T agreed will resolve the telecom firm's claims that the city effectively prevented its service expansion with its prior fee schedule, according to a joint stipulation filed in Pennsylvania federal court.

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Mondaq

MAY 26, 2022

On 30 March 2022 the High Court sanctioned a restructuring plan for Smile Telecoms Holding Limited in which the court for the first time allowed the exclusion of all but one class of creditors from voting on a restructuring plan.

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Mondaq

MARCH 30, 2022

On 10 March 2022, the UK High Court held the adjourned sanction hearing regarding Smile Telecoms Holdings Limited's ("Smile") second proposed restructuring plan

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Law 360

APRIL 8, 2024

Supreme Court to review a Ninth Circuit decision reviving retirement plan mismanagement claims against the telecom giant, arguing that a panel defied court precedent and deepened a circuit split with its ruling knocking out AT&T's summary judgment win. AT&T asked the U.S.

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Law 360

APRIL 1, 2024

Telecom giant AT&T Inc. was hit with a wave of litigation accusing the company of failing to safeguard customers' sensitive data just days after it reported that detailed personal information from more than 70 million past and current users surfaced online.

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Law 360

APRIL 19, 2024

And British telecom giant BT Group will reward two law firms for successful diversity and AI programs with automatic spots on its pared down legal panel. These are some of the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week.

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Law 360

MARCH 23, 2023

Lawmakers on Thursday sent a raft of legislation to the U.S. House floor that would streamline satellite licenses and improve security and access to spectrum seen as critical to private sector growth.

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JUNE 21, 2023

Potential buyers and sellers in the telecom space should take note of the recent collapse of Standard General's attempted takeover of Tegna, which could not find its way out of a procedural maze created by the Federal Communications Commission's administrative law judge review, says Dennis Corbett at Telecommunications Law Professionals.

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Law 360

JANUARY 31, 2024

company is suing Huawei in California federal court under racketeering laws, arguing that the Chinese Communist Party-affiliated telecom giant is using infringement suits in Germany and China to demand "excessive and discriminatory royalties." A major U.S.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

The TGK law imposed an obligation on telecom operators to retain customers’ traffic data for 10 weeks and location data for four weeks. The ECJ ruled in favor of the telecom operators, stating that “EU law precludes the general and indiscriminate retention of traffic and location data.”

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Law 360

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

South Korean telecommunications behemoth KT Corp. has agreed to pay $6.3 million to put to rest U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission allegations that the company violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act by making improper payments to benefit government officials abroad, the SEC announced Thursday.

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Law 360

JANUARY 5, 2024

Salt Lake City has settled its dispute with Lumen Technologies more than two years after suing the telecom provider for $400,000, saying it had refused to pay up for the cost of moving the company's communications infrastructure from public rights-of-way during a city construction project.

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Law 360

JULY 19, 2022

Covington & Burling LLP associate and telecom law practitioner Hannah Lepow has joined the Federal Communications Commission as the agency's newest legal adviser, where she will work on matters relating to media and consumer protection, according to an announcement issued by the agency Tuesday.

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