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BC Partners details new Intelsat ownership structure
- Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
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- USA
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- August 17 2007
In documents that seek FCC consent to the transfer of Intelsat’s ownership to BC Partners (BCP), Intelsat confirmed last Friday that BCP would establish a new entity Serafina Holdings that would acquire Intelsat upon FCC approval of the $16.5 billion transaction announced in June
British regulator seeks EC permission to review T-MobileOrange deal
- Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
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- European Union, United Kingdom
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- February 5 2010
On Wednesday, Great Britain’s Office of Fair Trading (OFT) petitioned the European Commission (EC) for rights to review the proposed merger of T-Mobile and Orange’s mobile phone operations in the United Kingdom (UK), warning that “the joint venture threatens significantly to affect competition in mobile telecommunications in the U.K.”
Government investigates antitrust charges against Telecom Italia
- Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
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- Italy
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- July 2 2010
Antitrust regulators in Italy confirmed late last week that they have begun an investigation of Telecom Italia (TI) after two TI rivals complained of various anticompetitive practices and other alleged abuses of TI's dominant position in the Italian telecom market
FCC approves DISH license transfer, but rejects waiver of MSSATC integrated service rule
- Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
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- USA
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- March 9 2012
Last Friday, DISH Network won FCC approval of its request to acquire 2 GHz mobile satellite service (MSS) S-band licenses and related assets from bankrupt MSS providers TerreStar Networks and DBSD North America
Justice Department announces conditional approval of Verizon-SpectrumCo deal, as FCC circulates draft order approving transaction
- Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
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- USA
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- August 18 2012
Verizon Wireless’s $3.9 billion plan to acquire wireless spectrum licenses held by the SpectrumCo venture and to enter a related cross-marketing arrangement with Cox Communications and the SpectrumCo members was conditionally approved yesterday under a proposed Justice Department (DOJ) consent decree that includes various conditions intended to preserve competition in the markets for video, wireless and broadband Internet services
EU court upholds antitrust decision against FTsubsidiary
- Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
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- European Union
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- February 2 2007
On Tuesday, the Luxembourg-based Court of First Instancethe second highest court in the European Union (EU)dealt a setback to France Telecom (FT), upholding a 2003 decree by the European Commission (EC) that FT’s Wanadoo Internet subsidiary abused its dominant market position by engaging in predatory pricing
Carriers call for end to ILEC equal access rules
- Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
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- USA
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- June 1 2007
In documents filed with the FCC, Verizon Communications and AT&T called for an end to equal access and non-discrimination obligations that apply to incumbent local exchange carriers (ILECs), arguing that such rules are obsolete in the current multi-modal telecom environment where service boundaries are typically blurred
Deutsche Telekom strikes $1.76 billion deal for Orange Netherlands
- Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
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- Netherlands
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- June 13 2007
Deutsche Telekom (DT) shored up its position in the Netherlands wireless market with an agreement to purchase Orange Netherlands (ON), a unit of France Telecom (FT), for 1.3 billion (U.S. $1.76 billion
EU court upholds EC decision in price fixing case
- Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
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- European Union
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- April 18 2008
Deutsche Telekom (DT) lost its appeal of a 12.6 million (U.S. $19.8 million) fine imposed by the European Commission (EC) in 2003, as the European Court of First Instance (ECFI) upheld the EC’s finding that DT abused its dominant market position by charging fixed line telephone competitors higher prices for wholesale network access than it charged retail customers for access to the DT network
Ec approves purchase of Telenor satellite unit
- Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
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- European Union, France, Norway
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- August 24 2007
On Monday, Apax Partners received the green light to proceed with its planned acquisition of Telenor Satellite Services (TSS), as the European Commission (EC) declared that the U.S. $400 million transaction would not significantly impede competition in the European Union (EU
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