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Latest News in Telecommunications
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May 16, 2024
Klobuchar Reintroduces Sweeping Antitrust Reform Bill
Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., reintroduced sweeping legislation Thursday aimed at restoring competition by strengthening antitrust laws to help enforcers better deal with harmful conduct and mergers, garnering support from the American Antitrust Institute, Consumer Reports and others.
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May 16, 2024
FCC Told Rural Aid Can't Lean Too Much On Broadband Maps
Wireless providers are calling out flaws in the Federal Communications Commission's national broadband map, telling the agency to require more certification from providers to verify that they can actually serve areas they say they can before allocating broadband deployment funding.
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May 16, 2024
Internet Archive Must Face Record Labels' Copyright Suit
A California federal judge on Wednesday ruled that the Internet Archive and the foundation that helps fund it must face a suit from record labels accusing the archive of copyright infringement by willfully copying and distributing thousands of protected recordings for free, saying the archive failed to show that the complaint was untimely.
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May 16, 2024
Deals Rumor Mill: Shein IPO, Kraft Heinz, Cinven-Jaggaer
Online fashion giant Shein is shifting IPO plans from the U.S. to London amid resistance from U.S. lawmakers and Chinese regulators, Kraft Heinz wants to sell its Oscar Mayer business, and private equity firm Cinven hopes to divest software firm Jaggaer for $3 billion. Here, Law360 breaks down these and other notable deal rumors from the past week.
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May 16, 2024
FCC To Pull Phone Co.'s Authorization To Operate In US
The Federal Communications Commission said Thursday it plans to revoke a telecom company's authorization to operate in the U.S. after the business failed to comply with an agreement with federal agencies stemming from a security review.
Areas of Coverage
- AGENCIES
- Federal Communications Commission
- Federal Trade Commission
- U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division
- Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
- White House Office of Science and Technology Policy
- National Telecommunications and Information Administration
- State and local telecom regulators
- POLICY & REGULATION
- Antitrust, consumer protection, and privacy controls
- Telecom lobbying
- International telecom regulation and legislation
- ENFORCEMENT
- Surveillance investigations and enforcement
- FCC administrative proceedings
- Merger reviews
- LITIGATION
- Antitrust suits
- Consumer litigation and class actions
- Privacy disputes, including government surveillance complaints and data breach suits
- Intellectual property issues, including piracy actions
- International trade suits
- Fights over telecom regulatory limits
- Labor and employment suits
- Shareholder litigation
- Bankruptcy proceedings
- TRANSACTIONS
- Mergers, acquisitions, and joint ventures
- Telecom infrastructure projects
- Share buybacks and stock splits
- PROFILES
- Personnel moves
- Profiles of telecommunications law practices
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