Legal / Regulatory

Ofcom, the official telecom regulator for the UK, has decided to allow white space devices to access the TV white space providing that no harmful interference is caused to existing...

InterDigital filed a complaint with the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) against Nokia, Huawei Technologies and FutureWei Technologies, and ZTE alleging that the companies have engaged in unfair trade practices....

Polaris Wireless, which supplies high-accuracy, software-based wireless location solutions, highlighted the carrier-grade reliability and privacy safeguards of its OmniLocate universal location platform. OmniLocate is a universal wireless location platform, providing...

Ofcom, the official telecoms regulator for the UK, proposed several remedies to address potential interference between LTE and digital TV broadcasts. In March, Ofcom set out plans to auction 800...

Mobile broadband users in the U.K. experienced an average download speed of 1.5 Mbps. according to a study conducted by Ofcom between September and December 2010 in partnership with broadband...

Ofcom proposed reduced fees that Openreach, BT's wholesale access division, can charge communications providers for access to some of its main wholesale telecoms services in areas where it retains significant...

Sipera Systems said its VoIP security solutions provide compliance with new guidance issued by the industry council for payment card privacy. Earlier this month, the PCI Security Standards Council (PCI...

Ofcom, the official telecoms regulator in the UK, has found that average broadband download speeds remain less than half of "up to" speeds advertised by some Internet Service Providers (ISPs),...

Huawei Technologies has asked a U.S. District Court to block Motorola from transferring certain intellectual property (IP) to Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN), which is in the final stages of acquiring...

Ofcom, the telecom regulator in the UK, proposed significant reductions in the prices that BT Wholesale can charge ISPs in parts of the country where it is the sole provider...

ZTE now holds 235 essential patents for LTE standards, representing a 7% share of the total LTE essential patents declared on the Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) online database of the...

Ofcom, the official telecom regulator in the UK, adopted a new measure that provides more flexibility for mobile phone operators. Specifically, airwaves used by mobile phone operators for 2G services,...

Nokia filed claims in the UK High Court, Dusseldorf and Mannheim District Courts in Germany and the District Court of the Hague, Netherlands, alleging that Apple infringes Nokia patents in...