You need a law firm prepared to support you with state and national regulatory compliance, rulemaking proceedings, enforcement actions, tech transactions, privacy matters, rights-of-way concerns, and a variety of other industry-specific legal and regulatory issues. We understand the particular needs of the telecommunications and broadband industries, and we’re ready to help you.
Our leading global telecommunications team works with a wide range of clients, from the world’s largest telecommunications companies to new entrants in the field offering pioneering communications services. We work on behalf of mobile, fixed, and satellite communications entities, along with operators, service providers, and technology providers. We also advise many of the leading names in the technology and media sectors, providing regular counsel on projects and issues that cut across these converging industries.
Our team includes attorneys with decades of in-house and outside counsel experience representing telecommunications and broadband providers before UK, French, Belgian and German regulatory authorities and public utility commissions, as well as before the U.S. Federal Communications Commission. We help you develop regulatory compliance plans; draft corporate policies, procedures, and consumer terms of service; and negotiate and draft provider-to-provider agreements.
We also have experience with essentiality declarations with the European Telecommunications Standards Institute and the International Telecommunication Union, and deep knowledge of their IP rights policies.
We have been engaged in the development of law, policy, regulation, and business relationships in every facet of the communications industry, and many of our deals have been industry firsts.
We leverage these facets of our knowledge and experience for your benefit in various ways:
- Mobilization strategies
- Cloud services and data centers
- MVNOs and other distribution arrangements
- Network sharing
- Network deployments
- Internet of Things/M2M
- Satellites
- Mobile payments
- Outsourcing and managed services
- OTT applications
- Recognitions
- Regulatory compliance and disputes