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Investor group to acquire majority stake in Skype

  • Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 4 2009

Four months after announcing plans to spin-off its Skype Internet phone business, eBay agreed this week to sell a 65 stake in the unit to an investment group led by private equity firm Silver Lake Partners for $2.75 billion in cash and bonds

FTC begins to explore mobile marketing regulation; some states already have enacted proscriptions

  • Hogan Lovells
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 31 2007

Earlier this month, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) hosted a “Spam Summit” to address consumer protection and privacy issues associated with SPAM and mailware, particularly in connection with new and emerging mobile technologies

Martin tells Senate panel that FCC will continue to probe Comcast web management

  • Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 25 2008

Appearing as a last-minute witness at a Senate Commerce Committee hearing on net neutrality and the future of the Internet, FCC Chairman Kevin Martin showed that the FCC is taking Comcast’s recent pronouncements on web network management with a grain of salt as he voiced his belief that the FCC and lawmakers should evaluate the practices of Comcast and other broadband service providers “with heightened scrutiny.”

Senate Communications Subcommittee is revived with Kerry as chairman

  • Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 20 2009

Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) announced plans last week to reconstitute the Senate Communications and Technology Subcommittee that had been disbanded since 2005

U.S. Senate passes $838 billion stimulus bill; cuts broadband funding under CollinsNelson amendment to $7 billion

  • Dentons
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 10 2009

On February 10, 2009, the U.S. Senate approved by a 61-38 vote a massive $838 Billion stimulus bill (The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act)("ARRA") consisting of tax cuts, tax rebates and infrastructure and other spending to create jobs

Google details plan for opening TV white spaces to unlicensed use

  • Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 28 2008

A week after coming up empty-handed in the FCC’s auction of broadband wireless licenses in the 700 MHz band, Internet search giant Google turned its attention toward ongoing FCC proceedings on the use of unused TV “white space” spectrum, as it urged the FCC on Monday to open up white space channels on an unlicensed basis for wireless Internet use

Comcast to modify web traffic management practices

  • Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 4 2008

In a development that won the praise of the FCC, consumer groups, and members of Congress, Comcast said it would change its approach to web traffic management to employ techniques that are “protocol agnostic” and that would not involve the blocking of traffic from specific web sites, such as BitTorrent, that use large amounts of broadband capacity

FCC reaffirms CAN-SPAM’s application to wireless providers

  • Wiley Rein LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 14 2007

Last month, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) denied a petition for reconsideration filed by Cingular Wireless seeking to remove the restriction on sending Mobile Service Commercial Messages (MSCMs) to wireless devices

FCC to consider “e-mail address portability”; potential impact on service providers unclear

  • Hogan Lovells
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 4 2007

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has asked for public comment on a Petition for Rulemaking filed by a consumer seeking to require Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to implement “e-mail address portability,” which would require ISPs to port (i.e., forward automatically) e-mail traffic and other stored data from a former customer’s e-mail account to the customer’s new e-mail address and provider

FCC to review Google Voice restrictions

  • Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 16 2009

Acting on complaints that the Google Voice service violates FCC rules by restricting calls to rural and other high-cost areas, the FCC asked Google in a letter last Friday to answer a series of questions "that can provide a more complete understanding of this situation."

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