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Telecom privacy news
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- August 23 2010
A South Carolina court of appeals has held that a defendant's unauthorized access of e-mails on a Yahoo! account server violated the Stored Communications Act (SCA
In the courts
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- July 19 2010
On July 13, 2010, the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit struck down, for the second time, the FCC's indecency policy in Fox Television Stations, Inc. v. FCC, Case Nos. 06-1760-ag et al
In the courts
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- January 10 2011
On January 4, 2011, the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit affirmed the holding of a district court that AT&T, Inc. owes federal income tax on the federal and state universal service funds (USF) it received in 1998 and 1999, or roughly $500 million of income tax on over $1.5 billion of USF monies it received in those two years
Telecom privacy news
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- January 3 2011
On December 23, 2010, a class action lawsuit was filed against Apple and five application developers (including Pandora and the Weather Channel) alleging that the companies illegally transmitted personal information garnered from iPad and iPhone users to advertising networks for tracking purposes
In the courts
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- November 22 2010
On November 16, 2010, the US District Court for the Northern District of California granted a motion to dismiss filed by Google and HTC and a motion to compel arbitration filed by T-Mobile in a putative class action claiming that the Nexus One mobile phone (or Google Phone) is defective by not maintaining connectivity to T-Mobile's 3G mobile network
Developments in intercarrier compensation
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- March 31 2010
On February 18, 2010, the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois denied the motion of AT&T-Illinois to dismiss claims by Global NAPs Illinois, Inc. that the Illinois Commerce Commission (ICC) violated federal communications law and due process in holding that GNAPs owes AT&T terminating access charges for Voice-over-Internet-Protocol traffic under the parties’ interconnection agreement
In the courts
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- March 8 2010
On March 2, 2010, the US District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan affirmed the order of the Michigan Public Service Commission (PSC) that extended Sprint's interconnection agreement with AT&T in accordance with the FCC's AT&T-BellSouth merger conditions
In the courts
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- December 13 2010
On December 8, 2010, Intellectual Ventures, a firm formed by Microsoft's former CTO that acquires and licenses patents and other intellectual property, filed three separate patent-infringement actions in federal court in Delaware against a series of defendants claiming that they have knowingly infringed Intellectual Ventures' patents and refused to agree to reasonable licensing terms
In the courts
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- November 29 2010
On November 19, 2010, the Court of Appeals of Ohio affirmed the grant of summary judgment to marketer Fernandez Discipline, LLC in connection with a fax recipient's suit alleging that Fernandez violated the Telecommunications Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) and Junk Fax Prevention Act (JFPA) by sending an allegedly unwanted fax
Developments in intercarrier compensation
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- March 8 2010
On February 25, 2010, Qwest Corp. filed a seven-count complaint in the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas against Broadvox, Inc. seeking recovery of unpaid access charges
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