EXPERTISE
Telecommunications

We were really impressed with the quality of work, support and understanding of our business. They handled the cross-border aspect extremely professionally, conveying their client's concerns in a very coherent manner.
Chambers Europe, 2023

The highly regulated telecommunications sector requires on-going legal counselling. As activities in this sector continue to shift into the digital realm, new telecommunications regulations are introduced to keep pace with change.

Our experts navigate clients through this challenging world of opportunities, starting with providing assistance on entering a local telecommunications market. We advise clients on how to tailor services to comply with local laws and how to achieve success in spectrum auctions, including for 5G. We also offer guidance on day-to-day business activities, for example in the fields of security, data retention and network neutrality regulations.

Our clients include leading telecommunications operators, providers of voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and over-the-top (OTT) services, electronic communications network providers, equipment manufacturers and data centre operators.

Our work includes:

  • licensing and authorisations
  • spectrum auctions
  • infrastructure projects
  • security
  • satellite law (on the operations of satellites)
  • data centres
  • mobile virtual network operators
  • network neutrality regulations
  • P2P networks
  • content blocking
  • data retention

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