Nokia Files Patent Claims Against iPhone
Nokia filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Apple claiming that the iPhone infringes Nokia patents for GSM, UMTS and wireless LAN (WLAN) standards. The ten patents cover wireless data, speech...
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European Commission Seeks Public Input on Next Gen Access (NGA) Networks
The European Commission has launched a public consultation on its revised proposals for the regulation of Next Generation Access (NGA) broadband networks. A previous public consultation held during the last...
Marvell Settles Shareholder Class Action Lawsuit for $72 Million
Marvell Technology Group reached an agreement to resolve a shareholder class action lawsuit filed on August 16, 2007 against Marvell and certain of its former and current officers and directors...
Wiretapping Lawsuits Dismissed in Court
A federal judge dismissed dozens of lawsuits over illegal domestic surveillance of American citizens approved by the Bush Administration, ruling that telecommunications companies had immunity from liability under the controversial...
European Commission Selects Inmarsat and Solaris for Mobile Satellite Licenses
The European Commission has selected two operators, Inmarsat Ventures Limited and Solaris Mobile Limited, to provide mobile satellite services across Europe. A mobile satellite service (MSS) is a service provided...
European Commission Pushes for Cost-Basis in Setting Mobile Termination Rates
The European Commission issued guidelines for EU telecoms regulators on the cost-based method to be used when calculating termination rates -- the wholesale fees charged by operators to connect the...
TerreStar Advances its S-Band Application with European Commission
TerreStar Europe submitted a filing to the European Commission certifying that it had complied with the Critical Design Review milestone of the Pan-European 2GHz MSS S-band selection and spectrum authorization...
European Commission Drops Telecom Cases Against Five Countries
The European Commission closed five infringement proceedings against EU Member States (Bulgaria, Romania, Slovakia, Luxembourg and Cyprus) after they took steps at national level to correct the problems. The cases...
European Commission Approves Partial Broadband Deregulation in Portugal
The European Commission approved the Portuguese telecoms regulator's proposal to deregulate some parts of the wholesale broadband market, covering around 61% of all Portuguese broadband lines. The regulator ANACOM's (Autoridade...
Ofcom Proposes New Wholesale Prices for Openreach
Ofcom, the telecoms regulator for the UK, published a new range of proposed prices that Openreach can charge communication providers for access to its main wholesale telecoms services. The proposed...
Multiven Files Antitrust Lawsuit Against Cisco
Multiven, a supplier of premium multivendor IP network services based in Redwood City, California, has filed an antitrust lawsuit against Cisco Systems in an effort to open up the network...
European Commission Proposes Reforms to EU Telecoms Rules
The European Commission published a set of proposals for the reform of the EU Telecoms rules, designed to create a Single EU Telecoms Market with improved rights for consumers and...
European Commission Opens Investigation into Telekomunikacja Polska
The European Commission has opened an anti-trust investigation of Telekomunikacja Polska S.A., the incumbent telecom operator in Poland. EC officials conducted an unannounced inspection at the company's premises on 23-September-2008....
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