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Deutsche Telekom issues first data protection report

  • Hunton & Williams LLP
  • -
  • Germany
  • -
  • May 15 2009

As a consequence of the data protection scandals at Deutsche Telekom AG over the last few years, the company is committed to reviewing these incidents by publishing an annual data protection report

Federal Labor Court rejects overheard telephone conversation as evidence

  • Hunton & Williams LLP
  • -
  • Germany
  • -
  • June 4 2009

On April 23, 2009, the German Federal Labor Court (Bundesarbeitsgericht) decided (Az.: 6 AZR 18908) that a party involved in a telephone conversation who intentionally allows a third party to overhear that conversation (e.g., by switching to loudspeaker on the telephone set or by holding the receiver away from his ear) violates the telephone counterpart’s general personality right

Changes of the regulation regarding the right of withdrawal in distance agreements

  • Reed Smith LLP
  • -
  • Germany
  • -
  • September 25 2009

The law against illicit telephone advertising and for improving consumer protection with respect to specific modes of distribution, of which we have given an account in our last newsletter in June 2009, came into force on August 4, 2009

Germany takes next steps to implement broadband strategy

  • Hogan Lovells
  • -
  • Germany
  • -
  • June 11 2009

BNetzA, Germany's telecommunications regulator, has taken several steps to implement the Federal Government's broadband strategy

German government introduces 50,000 penalty on unsolicited phone calls

  • Hunton & Williams LLP
  • -
  • Germany
  • -
  • May 18 2009

On May 15, 2009, the German Federal Council adopted the "Act against unsolicited commercial phone calls and improvement of consumer protection."

New act on the distribution of highly detailed satellite data

  • Bird & Bird
  • -
  • Germany
  • -
  • March 18 2008

In November 2007, the German Parliament adopted the Act for the “Protection of the Security of the Federal Republic of Germany Against Endangerment by the Distribution of Highly Detailed Terrestrial Satellite Data” ("Gesetz zum Schutz vor Gefährdung der Sicherheit der Bundesrepublik Deutschland durch das Verbreiten von hochwertigen Erdfernerkundungsdaten"

EC sues Germany over DT network access law

  • Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
  • -
  • European Union, Germany
  • -
  • June 29 2007

Fulfilling earlier threats, the European Commission (EC) filed suit Wednesday over the German government’s refusal to change a law, enacted in February, which exempts Deutsche Telekom (DT) from having to provide rivals with access to its high-speed VDSL network

Deutsche Telekom ordered by German court to turn over records provided in earlier U.S. lawsuit

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
  • -
  • Germany, USA
  • -
  • August 11 2008

A German court recently ordered Deutsche Telekom ("DT") to provide records from a 2005 U.S. lawsuit to plaintiffs in a similar lawsuit filed in Germany

FRAND licensing terms - German court refuses to grant an injunction to the owner of "essential" patents where the licence offered did not comply with antitrust law

  • Bird & Bird
  • -
  • Germany
  • -
  • April 30 2007

In a landmark decision on 13 February 2007 in an action conducted by Bird & Bird's German office, the Regional Court of Düsseldorf, Germany's leading court in patent infringement matters, rejected four claims of patent infringement relating to patents declared to the European Telecommunications Standardisation Institute ("ETSI") as being "Essential" patents for the implementation of the GSM telecommunication standard on the ground that the patentee did not offer the defendant a licence on fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory ("FRAND") terms

Commission pursues infringement proceedings regarding German telecom laws

  • McDermott Will & Emery
  • -
  • European Union, Germany
  • -
  • May 11 2007

The European Commission has sent a reasoned opinion to Germany in which it maintains that German telecom laws are incompatible with EU law

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