Telecommunications
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Covington’s telecommunications practice encompasses a wide range of the telecommunications industry. Our clients include competitive and incumbent local exchange carriers, wireless providers, directory assistance providers, and Internet companies who are increasingly entering the telephony market. Covington recognizes that the rapidly changing telecommunications market raises new business and legal challenges that require multi-disciplinary solutions. Given its long experience and extensive industry knowledge, the firm is uniquely able to provide clients with the regulatory, transactional, and litigation expertise this evolving market requires. In addition, our legislative and FCC practices allow us to provide forward-looking representation on emerging telecommunications issues.
The practice’s strength is in its multidisciplinary solutions. Covington’s attorneys work seamlessly across offices and across legal disciplines, combining transactional and regulatory sophistication with policy and technology expertise. This is true within the U.S. and in our offices around the world. In the regulatory arena, our practice provides comprehensive representation of telecommunications clients from issues that require significant strategic and legislative effort to daily regulatory compliance issues. In the transactional arena, our commercial lawyers’ experience in the telecommunications industry allows them to understand the unique business issues confronting the industry, both from a provider and customer perspective. The practice also has long been known for its litigation excellence. Our work has included everything from defending and challenging orders of the FCC before federal appellate courts to defending statutory challenges to legislation in trial-level federal courts.
Representative Matters
- TDS Telecommunications. Covington provides ongoing regulatory advice to TDS, a local telephone company serving over 6 million customers in more than 30 states. Covington provides strategic advice and representation on issues such as intercarrier compensation, universal service, interconnection, and emerging telecommunications technologies with efficient and cost-effective management of more routine regulatory issues.
- InfoNXX, Inc. Covington advises InfoNXX, the world’s largest wholesale provider of directory assistance services to the wireless industry, in regulatory proceedings, legislative efforts, and corporate transactions designed to facilitate and enhance the company’s ability to provide high-quality, innovative directory assistance and other information services, both in the U.S. and Europe.
- Fortune 100 national retailer. We represented a Fortune 100 national retailer on procuring telecommunications services, as it negotiated new multi-year contracts with a number of vendors. We similarly have represented entities eligible for FCC funds in negotiating telecommunications contracts.
- Wiretap compliance/CALEA. Covington advices numerous clients, from carriers to cable companies to software providers to higher education institutions, on issues relating to compliance with the Communications Assistance Law Enforcement Act (CALEA). Covington’s attorneys have been intimately involved with CALEA since its inception (including its drafting) and have represented clients in litigation in the D.C. Circuit.
Accolades
- Ranked by Chambers USA as a leading Communications practice in 2004-2007.
- Ranked by Chambers USA as a leading Communications Finance practice in 2006.
- Ranked by Practical Law Company as a leading Communications practice in 2005-2006.
- 2 attorneys recognized in International Who’s Who of Business Lawyers for Regulatory Communications (2005-2006).
- Our partners have significant experience outside of the practice - for example, on Capitol Hill, where they were deeply involved in the development of telecommunications legislation, and in the executive suites of major and highly visible media companies.
- Our partners have over the years held leadership positions in major associations in the media field including the Federal Communications Bar Association, the International Radio and Television Society Foundation, the Media Institute, and the Media Law Resource Center.
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