Technology, Media & Telecommunications - Telecommunications Regulation
Crowell & Moring's Technology, Media & Telecommunications attorneys have years of experience in dealing with regulation and regulators on an array of telecommunications issues in both the United States and Europe. In the US, we have a special focus on wireless and wireline communications technologies that are being developed for an ever broader range of communications applications, including voice, data, and multimedia functions, and using terrestrial and satellite-based facilities, both fixed and mobile.
Our carrier clients continue, despite the deregulatory purposes of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, to work through federal and state regulatory obstacles as they expand the scope and scale of their communications businesses, in the US and abroad. Similarly, because wireless applications make competing demands on an electromagnetic spectrum that is physically limited, there will always be a regulatory component of these commercial activities, centered at the FCC or at the applicable foreign government regulatory body.
Within Europe, we are engaged in regulatory proceedings both at the European and national levels on market access issues. We also offer compliance audit services and development of internal audit systems to ensure agency regulations and industry guidelines are followed.