https://www.law360.com/telecom?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section Latest articles for: Telecommunications Copyright 2025 Portfolio Media, Inc. en-US Thu, 01 May 2025 22:29:10 +0000 https://www.law360.com/telecom/articles/2333089?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/telecom/articles/2333089 A defunct advertising app that alleged Google's decision to boot it from the Google Play Store harmed market competition for digital advertising asked the Ninth Circuit to reinstate its claims, arguing Wednesday the lower court wrongly concluded that eliminating a "nascent competitor" in a large market didn't rise to antitrust injury. Thu, 01 May 2025 22:06:00 +0000 https://www.law360.com/telecom/articles/2333179?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/telecom/articles/2333179 A California federal judge presiding over a damages trial over how much Israeli spyware-maker NSO Group owes for hacking 1,400 WhatsApp users' devices ruled Thursday NSO's counsel violated multiple pretrial orders, finding corrective instructions are warranted and barring counsel from making the "outlandish" claim Meta Platforms' spyware-attack remediation was trade secret theft. Thu, 01 May 2025 21:57:56 +0000 https://www.law360.com/telecom/articles/2332920?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/telecom/articles/2332920 A $4.1 million settlement between Truist Financial Corp. and a proposed class of cellphone users who say they got unwanted robocalls from the bank has received a North Carolina federal judge's initial green light. Thu, 01 May 2025 21:13:16 +0000 https://www.law360.com/telecom/articles/2333553?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/telecom/articles/2333553 An academic testifying for Google on Thursday told a D.C. federal court that the data sharing provisions being proposed as a fix in the search monopolization case would allow rivals to reverse engineer Google search and if not match the results, at least mimic them. Thu, 01 May 2025 21:00:26 +0000 https://www.law360.com/telecom/articles/2332989?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/telecom/articles/2332989 There's plenty of hand-wringing at the Federal Communications Commission as a U.S. Supreme Court decision draws near over the legality of the revenue-raising scheme used to pay for more than $9 billion in broadband and phone service subsidies. Thu, 01 May 2025 20:46:31 +0000 https://www.law360.com/telecom/articles/2332772?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/telecom/articles/2332772 The Federal Circuit's argument calendar for May includes appeals of two nine-figure patent verdicts — one against Apple and one against Medtronic — and Roku's bid to revive its remote control patent suit at the U.S. International Trade Commission after a loss tied to the commission's domestic industry requirement. Thu, 01 May 2025 19:32:26 +0000 https://www.law360.com/telecom/articles/2333823?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/telecom/articles/2333823 Five telecom industry groups asked the Federal Communications Commission on Thursday to revamp its enforcement policies after a recent Fifth Circuit decision wiped out a $57 million consumer data privacy fine against AT&T. Thu, 01 May 2025 16:35:43 +0000 https://www.law360.com/telecom/articles/2332918?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/telecom/articles/2332918 A California Assembly panel has passed a bill to cap internet prices for low-income families, similar to New York legislation now in effect that went through appellate court challenge. Thu, 01 May 2025 15:33:59 +0000 https://www.law360.com/telecom/articles/2332564?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/telecom/articles/2332564 A banker challenging the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.'s use of in-house proceedings to level a fraud judgment against him told the Fifth Circuit that its recent decision overturning a $57 million Federal Communications Commission fine against AT&T confirms that the FDIC cannot rely on a "public rights" exemption to impose fines without a jury trial. Thu, 01 May 2025 13:38:16 +0000 https://www.law360.com/telecom/articles/2333035?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/telecom/articles/2333035 Kirkland & Ellis LLP picked up two national security partners from a D.C. boutique, the firm announced Thursday. Thu, 01 May 2025 10:21:44 +0000 https://www.law360.com/telecom/articles/2305667?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/telecom/articles/2305667 Serving as an adjunct college professor has taught me the importance of building rapport, communicating effectively, and persuading individuals to critically analyze the difference between what they think and what they know — principles that have helped to improve my practice of law, says Sheria Clarke at Nelson Mullins. Thu, 01 May 2025 00:09:14 +0000 https://www.law360.com/telecom/articles/2332774?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/telecom/articles/2332774 A California federal judge Wednesday agreed with Epic Games that Apple violated her order blocking App Store rules that prevent developers from steering users to alternative payment options, and has now barred Apple from collecting any fees on outside-app purchases and referred the matter to federal prosecutors for possible criminal contempt proceedings. Wed, 30 Apr 2025 23:04:56 +0000 https://www.law360.com/telecom/articles/2332372?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/telecom/articles/2332372 Meta Platforms engineers testified Wednesday during a California federal jury trial over how much Israeli spyware-maker NSO Group owes Meta for hacking 1,400 WhatsApp users' devices that they spent days working around-the-clock to combat NSO's "unprecedented" spyware attack. Wed, 30 Apr 2025 22:49:06 +0000 https://www.law360.com/telecom/articles/2332709?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/telecom/articles/2332709 The California Privacy Protection Agency has taken its latest step toward boosting its collaboration with data protection authorities around the world, announcing Tuesday that it had reached an agreement with the U.K.'s privacy regulator to compare investigative methods, research into new technologies and other vital tools. Wed, 30 Apr 2025 21:55:16 +0000 https://www.law360.com/telecom/articles/2331458?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/telecom/articles/2331458 Google CEO Sundar Pichai testified Wednesday that the Justice Department's proposed monopolization fixes amount to a "de facto divestiture" of the company's entire search intellectual property, only for the D.C. federal judge to wonder how rival search engines could hope to match its financial resources. Wed, 30 Apr 2025 21:34:27 +0000 https://www.law360.com/telecom/articles/2332664?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/telecom/articles/2332664 The Federal Communications Commission plans to vote in May on whether to ban U.S. operations of telecom equipment test labs owned by foreign adversaries. Wed, 30 Apr 2025 21:19:14 +0000 https://www.law360.com/telecom/articles/2332428?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/telecom/articles/2332428 The U.S. Senate will consider a bipartisan bill to direct the Federal Communications Commission to publish a list of foreign adversaries' ownership stakes in regulated companies. Wed, 30 Apr 2025 20:26:36 +0000 https://www.law360.com/telecom/articles/2332478?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/telecom/articles/2332478 The full Fourth Circuit was of many minds Wednesday morning as it ruled to co-sign the appellate court's previous finding upholding the use of a so-called geofence warrant to pinpoint a man's location in order to bring robbery charges against him. Wed, 30 Apr 2025 19:51:54 +0000 https://www.law360.com/telecom/articles/2332317?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/telecom/articles/2332317 The Third Circuit's argument lineup for May will see the state of New Jersey defend a law barring its immigration detention centers from contracting with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, while Rutgers University seeks to keep its victory over claims it falsely inflated its business school's ranking. Wed, 30 Apr 2025 19:27:03 +0000 https://www.law360.com/telecom/articles/2332388?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/telecom/articles/2332388 A bipartisan bill to require the Federal Communications Commission release more data on disaster-related network outage reports cleared a U.S. Senate committee Wednesday.