Policy, Spectrum and Security Rules Shaping Digital Infrastructure Converge Digest tracks the legal and regulatory decisions affecting telecom networks, cloud infrastructure, spectrum, subsea cables, satellite systems, cybersecurity, AI infrastructure and global connectivity markets. |
Innovation Pillars FCC ›Spectrum Policy ›Submarine Cables ›Cybersecurity ›AI Policy ›Satellite Regulation ›Broadband Policy › |
Key Institutions FCC ›NTIA ›White House ›European Commission ›Ofcom ›Team Telecom › |
| Tracking: Spectrum Auctions • Subsea Security • Merger Review • Export Controls • Broadband Funding • Data Sovereignty • National Security |
Cisco Systems agreed to resolve the consolidated shareholder class action lawsuit filed in 2001 against the company and certain current and former directors and officers in the United States District...
FCC Chairman Kevin Martin has declined a request to open an investigation into reports of the disclosure by the nation's largest telecommunications carriers, AT&T, Verizon, and BellSouth, of private consumer...
Verizon Communications issued a statement saying it could not neither confirm nor deny press reports that it supplied extensive calling records of millions of U.S. customers to the National Security...
Ofcom, the official telecom regulator in the UK, proposed that all phone companies, including BT Group plc, be free to set their own prices and compete for customers in future....
The FCC launched a proceeding to examine whether additional security measures could prevent the unauthorized disclosure of sensitive customer information held by telecommunications companies. In a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking...
Harmonic announced plans to provide real-time content encryption using Privacy-Mode conditional access technology from Motorola in its Narrowcast Services Gateway (NSG) video-on-demand (VOD) delivery solution. The application of Privacy-Mode and...
NEC reached a settlement with Harris in its lawsuit regarding infringement of its Digital Microwave Radio ("DMR") patent. Harris has agreed to take a royalty-bearing, non-exclusive license under NEC's Digital...
The Liberty Alliance Project, a global consortium for open federated identity standards and identity-based Web services, released "Circles of Trust: The Implications of EU Data Protection and Privacy Law for...
The Liberty Alliance Project, a global consortium for open federated identity standards and identity-based Web services, released "Circles of Trust: The Implications of EU Data Protection and Privacy Law for...
The U.S. Supreme Court declined to review a lower court ruling on the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 (DMCA) and whether ISPs could be compelled to reveal the names,...
Microsoft agreed to settle a patent dispute with AT&T concerning technology for the transmission of voice over an IP network. AT&T alleged that its technology was being used in Microsoft's...
The Liberty Alliance published its "Phase 2" specifications aimed at providing an open, standards-based way of delivering identity-based web services within and between trusted domains. The Liberty specifications, which build...
The Internet2 initiative announced the first production version of open-source software designed for active privacy management. The Shibboleth 1.0 software provides an authentication and authorization architecture that enables inter-institutional sharing...
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