Above The Law

DECEMBER 27, 2024

From the you-broke-it,-you-buy-it dept The post Supreme Court Wont Help Big Telecom Kill NY Law Requiring Affordable Broadband For Poor People appeared first on Above the Law.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 2, 2024

The controversy has intensified with the arrest of former Mauritius Telecom CEO Sherry Singh and three others in connection with the investigation into the leaks. As Mauritius is heading into legislative elections, RSF is concerned about these leaks, which point to a system of widespread wiretapping that does not spare media professionals.

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JURIST

AUGUST 12, 2024

Yunus was indicted in June on ACC charges of embezzling money from the profit participation fund of Grameen Telecom Nazmul Islam. Yunus and his associates were convicted on separate charges in January for violating labour law regulations in their operation of Grameen Telecom.

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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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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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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

DECEMBER 16, 2022

telecom attorneys. Federal Communications Commission Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel poked fun at the likes of Twitter, Amazon and her fellow commissioners Thursday night in an annual time-honored roast for Washington, D.C.,

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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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Above The Law

JUNE 18, 2021

Kind of missing a big part of the problem.

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JURIST

JULY 7, 2021

TikTok is up and running again in Pakistan, just days after the Pakistan Telecoms Authority (PTA) suspended public access to the popular social media app over complaints from citizens about alleged immoral and obscene content.

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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

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

The European Union's outgoing competition chief pushed back at a pitch to loosen the bloc's competition rules Tuesday, saying that merger control rules for telecom markets must continue to look at competition at the national level rather than enlarging the examination to the entire 27-country bloc.

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Law 360

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

telecom market. The Federal Communications Commission has referred T-Mobile's anticipated $4.4 billion purchase of wireless operations from United States Cellular Corp. to the committee that vets foreign investment in the U.S.

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Law 360

JANUARY 7, 2025

DLA Piper is boosting its global telecom practice with a new partner at its New York office who joins after serving as Verizon Business' senior vice president and general counsel, the firm announced Tuesday.

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JURIST

JUNE 20, 2021

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled Friday against Chinese telecom provider Huawei’s plea to vacate a rule by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Under the rule, FCC designated Huawei and its American affiliate as a “national security risk.”

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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

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

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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DECEMBER 28, 2020

The restrictions have been placed by the principal secretary to the government under the Indian Telegraph Act, 1885 and the Temporary Suspension of Telecom Services (Public Emergency or Public Safety) Rules, 2017.

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Law 360

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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Vanguard

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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JURIST

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

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Telecom and internet service company GTT Communications Inc. has avoided a penalty to settle U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission allegations around its expense accounting after having self-reported the issue and taking steps to the fix the problem and cooperate with the agency, according to the SEC.

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JURIST

AUGUST 30, 2021

Additionally, there were some reports saying that the internet connection of different telecom companies have been cut off in Panjshir by the central government. The only outcome was that they agreed not to fight until until the next negotiations. So, this maybe the reason holding them to enter into Panjshir.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Myanmar’s Ministry of Transport and Communication (MoTC) on Wednesday directed telecom companies to temporarily block access to popular social media service Facebook in the country in order to ensure “stability” and prevent misunderstanding amongst the citizens from the “spreading [of] fake news and misinformation” after (..)

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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 24, 2021

In that case, the Supreme Court stated that such applications and services are not considered telecom service providers, but classified as “over-the-top” (OTT) service providers.

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Law 360

JULY 22, 2024

billion telecom merger. A $6 million bank fee, a $42.5 million shopping mall deal, some questionable Amazon deliveries and long-ago expired ketchup: it was all part of the comings and goings in Delaware's Court of Chancery last week. In case you missed it, here's the latest from the Chancery Court.

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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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JURIST

DECEMBER 11, 2023

On Sunday, China issued arrest warrants targeting 10 key figures involved in telecom fraud in Myanmar. The UK government said that “a small number of British nationals” had been victims of such crimes. The post INTERPOL report reveals trafficking-based cyber fraud spread to Latin America appeared first on JURIST - News.

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JURIST

JULY 13, 2024

Optus) and TPG Telecom Limited (TPG). Optus and TPG Telecom will be positioned to provide consumers with more choice and better services as we accelerate our investment in the regions.

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Law 360

JUNE 9, 2022

Securities and Exchange Commission has opened an investigation into telecom giant Ericsson in connection with reports that it may have made bribes to the Islamic State group while trying to secure business in the Middle East, according to a regulatory filing Thursday.

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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

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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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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JURIST

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

The bill is due to be implemented and was distributed among mobile operators and telecoms license holders for their comment on Tuesday; it is expected to be made public by the junta on 15 February.

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Law 360

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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