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Judgment by the Supreme Court (Third division-judicial review) of October 10, 2012

  • Cuatrecasas Gonçalves Pereira
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  • Spain
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  • March 25 2013

Municipal tax ordinance regulating the tax for the special use of local public domain in favor of operators of supply services of general interest

Spanish National Court confirms an acceptable opt-out procedure for SMS

  • Baker & McKenzie
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  • Spain
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  • December 5 2012

The Spanish National Court (Judgment dated 24 July 2012) overturned another resolution issued by the Spanish DPA for serious infringement of the requirements for sending promotional SMS, which generally may be sanctioned with fines ranging from EUR 30,000- EUR 150,000

CMS quarterly communications update April 2012

  • CMS Cameron McKenna
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  • Austria, Bulgaria, European Union, Germany, Global, Hungary, Iran, Italy, Poland, Serbia, Spain, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Kingdom
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  • April 30 2012

This edition includes contributions from the United Kingdom, Austria, Bulgaria, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Serbia, Spain, Switzerland and Ukraine

Supreme Court nullifies fine imposed by the Spanish DPA on a telecommunications company

  • Baker & McKenzie
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  • Spain
  • -
  • March 28 2012

The Spanish Data Protection Authority (Spanish DPA) imposed a 300,000 fine on a telecommunications company for an allegedly very serious infringement of the data quality principle, which prohibits the collection of data by fraudulent, unfair or illicit means

Advocate General’s opinion on member states charging telecom providers for using facilities installed on public property

  • Mayer Brown LLP
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  • European Union, Spain
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  • March 27 2012

On 22 March 2012, Advocate General Sharpston gave an opinion on a reference for a preliminary ruling from a Spanish court on whether member states are permitted by Article 13 of the Authorisation Directive (Directive 200220) to charge mobile telephony operators a fee for the use of facilities installed on public property and owned by another undertaking

Telephone operator obliged to indemnify customer for unlawful inclusion of his personal data in a debtors' list

  • Baker & McKenzie
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  • Spain
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  • February 18 2011

A telecoms operator has been ordered by the Spanish National High Court to indemnify a client 28,000 for including him in ASNEF, a national default registry, for allegedly failing to pay a bill worth 20.88

Telecom privacy news

  • Arent Fox LLP
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  • Spain, USA
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  • January 24 2011

Rep. Cliff Stearns, R-Fla., has indicated that he is working to develop a privacy bill for the new session of Congress that reflects stakeholder comments on a draft bill that Rep. Stearns and former Communications Subcommittee Chairman Rick Boucher, D-Va., developed last year

Courts required to assess of their own motion whether terms fair under UTCCR 1999

  • Squire Sanders
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  • European Union, Spain, United Kingdom
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  • October 29 2009

In a reference from the Spanish courts in the case of Asturcom Telecomunicaciones SL v Maria Cristina Rodriguez Nogueira, the ECJ has considered whether, in proceedings involving a term in a consumer contract, a national court must consider of its own motion whether that term is unfair within the Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts Directive (9313EEC) (the Directive

European Court of Justice rules on ISP customer data disclosure in Promusicae v. Telefonica

  • Hogan Lovells
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  • European Union, Spain
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  • February 8 2008

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) rendered on January 29, 2008, its long-awaited decision in the Promusicae case

EC slaps Telefonica with $205 million fine for market abuses

  • Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
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  • European Union, Spain
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  • July 6 2007

On Wednesday, Telefonica of Spain was subjected to a record fine of U.S. $205 million by the European Commission (EC), which found that Telefonica abused its dominant position in the Spanish broadband market by setting wholesale Internet prices too high to enable competitors to realize a profit