/telecom?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section Latest articles for: Telecommunications Copyright 2025 sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½. en-US Thu, 11 Dec 2025 19:37:09 +0000 /telecom/articles/2420963?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /telecom/articles/2420963 Cities are protesting a legal effort underway at the Federal Communications Commission to potentially override local decision-making when it comes to the use of publicly owned rights of way for high-speed internet deployment projects. Thu, 11 Dec 2025 19:06:19 +0000 /telecom/articles/2420532?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /telecom/articles/2420532 The Patent Trial and Appeal Board has found that Samsung was able to prove the invalidity of one claim in an Empire Technology Development LLC cellphone signal patent tied to a $12.5 million verdict against the South Korean electronics giant. Thu, 11 Dec 2025 18:34:58 +0000 /telecom/articles/2421215?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /telecom/articles/2421215 Navigation technology developer NextNav said Thursday it would conduct a test run in San Jose, California, of its proposed network to backstop the Global Positioning System. Thu, 11 Dec 2025 10:05:43 +0000 /telecom/articles/2397158?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /telecom/articles/2397158 Stretching my skills as a knitter makes me a better antitrust attorney by challenging me to recalibrate after wrong turns, not rush outcomes, and trust that I can teach myself the skills to tackle new and difficult projects — even when I don’t have a pattern to work from, says Kara Kuritz at V&E. Wed, 10 Dec 2025 22:30:54 +0000 /telecom/articles/2419512?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /telecom/articles/2419512 The Federal Trade Commission has refused to revisit its 2021 order permanently banning the marketer of the surveillance app SpyFone from distributing the product or similar monitoring services, finding that the company's CEO had failed to show that there had been any changes in the law, the agency's priorities or other relevant circumstances in recent years.  Wed, 10 Dec 2025 20:41:46 +0000 /telecom/articles/2420498?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /telecom/articles/2420498 The FCC has asked for the public's two cents on "barriers" that local TV stations face in their relationships with national networks, but a coalition of civil rights groups said the inquiry is further evidence of a pattern of "aiding and abetting ... authoritarian conduct." Wed, 10 Dec 2025 20:31:45 +0000 /telecom/articles/2418482?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /telecom/articles/2418482 On Dec. 12, the Eleventh Circuit will hear arguments in U.S. ex rel. Zafirov v. Florida Medical Associates, setting the stage for a decision that could drastically reduce enforcement under the False Claims Act, and presenting an opportunity to seek U.S. Supreme Court review of the act's whistleblower provisions, say attorneys at Epstein Becker. Wed, 10 Dec 2025 18:22:17 +0000 /telecom/articles/2420404?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /telecom/articles/2420404 The Federal Communications Commission has urged the U.S. Supreme Court to pair Verizon's appeal of a $46 million FCC penalty with a similar case involving AT&T that centers on the FCC's ability to issue fines without a jury trial. Wed, 10 Dec 2025 17:23:22 +0000 /telecom/articles/2420700?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /telecom/articles/2420700 Two whistleblowers told the U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday that UScellular cannot escape claims of spectrum auction fraud by arguing they had "pleaded themselves out of court" at an earlier stage of the False Claims Act suit. Wed, 10 Dec 2025 17:14:40 +0000 /telecom/articles/2420376?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /telecom/articles/2420376 The Federal Communications Commission has been toying with the idea of rising power limits for nongeostationary orbit satellites, and while the agency thinks the move could increase the availability of satellite broadband, DirecTV says the decision would be bad news for satellite TV. Wed, 10 Dec 2025 16:41:10 +0000 /telecom/articles/2418455?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /telecom/articles/2418455 After nearly 20 years in operation, the Miami Complex Business Litigation Division is a pioneer upon which other jurisdictions in the state have been modeled, adopting many innovations to keep its cases running more efficiently and staffing experienced judges who are accustomed to hearing business disputes, say attorneys at King & Spalding. Wed, 10 Dec 2025 16:21:24 +0000 /telecom/articles/2419447?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /telecom/articles/2419447 China's "Big Three" telecom operators will have their calls completely blocked from U.S. networks if they don't update their anti-robocall plans, the Federal Communications Commission has warned. Wed, 10 Dec 2025 15:41:54 +0000 /telecom/articles/2420359?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /telecom/articles/2420359 Meta is facing a lawsuit by a smart appliance company that claims Meta's Orion artificial intelligence-powered smart glasses and its Ray-Ban smart glasses are infringing a patent. Wed, 10 Dec 2025 15:20:22 +0000 /telecom/articles/2420341?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /telecom/articles/2420341 A Delaware Supreme Court panel on Wednesday pressed an attorney for Charter Communications Holding on the company's obligation to provide notice that a supplier's patents — and its duty to defend — were entangled in a Sprint Communication infringement suit against Charter and affiliates. Wed, 10 Dec 2025 10:25:49 +0000 /telecom/articles/2419978?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /telecom/articles/2419978 Cozen O'Connor's government affairs subsidiary announced that it has hired the former regional head of policy and government affairs for Starbucks. Tue, 09 Dec 2025 20:02:23 +0000 /telecom/articles/2420125?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /telecom/articles/2420125 German software company SAP SE has inked a deal to end a lawsuit in Texas federal court accusing it of infringing various patents owned by Valtrus Innovations Ltd. covering computer data and communication. Tue, 09 Dec 2025 20:00:38 +0000 /telecom/articles/2420066?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /telecom/articles/2420066 The Federal Trade Commission urged a D.C. federal judge Tuesday to unassign herself from an antidisinformation nonprofit's lawsuit challenging a subpoena allegedly served in retribution for listing conservative outlets as top disinformation risks, arguing the case has nothing to do with a similar one the judge is already presiding over. Tue, 09 Dec 2025 19:56:59 +0000 /telecom/articles/2417686?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /telecom/articles/2417686 U.S. lawmakers are revisiting an effort to get FM and AM radio broadcasters to pay artists when playing their music, with key members of a Senate subcommittee speaking at a hearing Tuesday in favor of a measure that also garnered enthusiastic support from Kiss singer Gene Simmons. Tue, 09 Dec 2025 19:38:06 +0000 /telecom/articles/2419839?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /telecom/articles/2419839 HBO Max subscribers slapped Netflix with one of the first proposed class actions seeking to halt the streaming behemoth's $82.7 billion plan to buy Warner Bros.' studio and streaming business, calling the deal "one of the more audacious horizontal mergers in recent memory." Tue, 09 Dec 2025 18:05:56 +0000 /telecom/articles/2420079?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /telecom/articles/2420079 A Republican member of the Federal Communications Commission said Tuesday the agency is looking at even more ways to reduce clutter on the telecom regulatory landscape.