By Christoph Engelmann, Senior Associate, Hamburg
DLA Piper recently advised a client (Transatel) on a very interesting matter leading to the German telecommunications regulator Bundesnetzagentur (BNetzA) issuing a landmark decision on the applicability of the Roaming Regulation on so-called 901 International Mobile Subscription Identities (IMSI). In this decision BNetzA
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This note consolidates information we have available on the current (July 2017) status of telecoms regulator’s considerations of zero-rated offers in Europe. See also our other posts on zero-rating.
Conclusion:
Continue Reading Zero-rating and net neutrality – decisions (so far) in the EU
Top 20 Do’s and Don’ts for Outsourcing Deals- the Customer Perspective
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My colleague Emil Odling, lead partner for IP and Technology in Stockholm, has written the piece below discussing a decision this week of the Swedish courts which suspends the decision of the Swedish regulator which would have required Telia to stop some practices on the basis that they infringe the net neutrality rules. Note that although the offers concerned are zero-rated it appears that the PTA’s (now suspended) decision looked at traffic management more generally and did not consider zero-rating specifically.
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On 8th of March 2017, the Swedish Administrative Court of Appeal ruled to inhibit the Swedish Post and Telecom Authority’s (“PTA”) decision to prohibit partially state-owned telecom and mobile network operator Telia Company AB’s (“Telia”) distribution of two services which according to the PTA constituted a breach of the so called Open Internet Regulation.
Continue Reading Net Neutrality in Sweden – PTA decision suspended
Written by Roxanne Chow
No one wants to start a new supplier relationship by discussing what happens if a service contract terminates. Everyone’s busy getting the service off the ground, and no one wants to upset goodwill by talking about breaking up. However, lawyers specialize in “what ifs”, so this
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I was on a panel session for the Total Telecom Congress in London on Wednesday and thought i would share some observations gleaned from other speakers that are relevant to the media sector and it’s intersection with telecoms:
Something like 20-30% of all mobile data traffic is advertising! This is
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Written by Dylan Kennet
Valuations of double digit multiples are often no surprise when it comes to technology companies, whether in Silicon Valley or here in the UK. Commonly known as “unicorns,” they are often defined as private companies valued at over $1bn. There are currently 169 unicorns globally with
Continue Reading The legal complexities of late stage tech deals
Written by Ben Goodall
The pace of innovation and adoption in technology – fast and getting faster – has long presented a stark contrast to the deliberate pace of change in the law. That contrast is greater than ever today, as entrepreneurs and established tech companies alike accelerate the time
Continue Reading At The Intersection of Business, Law and Technology: A Q&A on the DLA Piper Global Technology Summit
Written by Jeff Aronson
The next time your client is asked to give a MFN, you may want to keep in mind a recently decided case in which a non-practicing entity (NPE) was required to refund $69 million of the $70 million patent license fee previously paid to it by
Continue Reading MFNs: a reminder of how powerful they can be
Written by Roxanne Chow
As speculation on the identity of the inventor of Bitcoin continues (see the article “The long search for Satoshi Nakamoto”: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-36168864), so too does the question of how we can widen the application of blockchain technology to other areas.
The key attributes of blockchain technology are
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