Electronic Communications
Specialised legal services in the electronic communications sector
We have extensive skills and experience in the Electronic Communications sector and provide assistance to telecommunications companies, television broadcasters and information technology companies on regulatory, commercial and technical issues.
Our specialised legal services include the introduction and regulation of services, the rules for transmission and access, use of low frequencies, establishment of consortia for mobile services and wireless access, numerical flow capacity, antitrust regulations and placement on the market, radio frequency and satellite service assignment, and supervision of approval procedures for communications equipment.
Our specialised services in the telecommunications sector are broken down into the following areas:
Normative-regulatory: normative and regulatory updating services, public relations with sector's authorities, focused consulting on setting up, drafting, filing and monitoring authorization requests for the provision telecommunication and electronic communication's services;
Homologation: assistance and supervision in the homologation, authorization, certification and/or testing procedures of telecommunication network apparatus, nodes and centrals;
Administrative: includes all activities linked to the different phases of evaluation, arrangement of documents, monitoring requests for excavations, passage, authorization and/or license, support in relations with Public Administration officials;
Administrative/Licenses and Authorizations: include legal advice on bids, authorisation and license procedures set up by the Italian Ministry of Communications and by the Italian Communication Authority;
Contractual: assistance in drafting commercial contracts; model-contracts for service provision;
Labour: relations with social security and welfare bodies as well as with subordinate and/or managerial employment agencies;
Corporate law: includes all the activities linked to the different phases of a company life like incorporation, setting up representative offices and branches on behalf of foreign companies in Italy, drafting parasocial agreements, drafting confidentiality and privacy agreements, shareholder's and executive's meetings resolutions, conversions, mergers, splits, equities acquisitions, stock quotations in the Italian and foreign stock exchange market, shares swapping, joint ventures and consortiums constitutions etc.
Legal services provided in the electronic communications sector.
According to the implementation of the so called “EU Telecoms Package” directives (in 2002 and in 2009 with reference to the reform of the 2002 legal framework) all the regulatory rules are set forth within the Italian Code for Electronic Communication (d.lgs. 259/2003 as amended).
We provide specialized legal assistance with regard to the above legal framework in the electronic communication sector, which affects – amongst the others - basic services, mobile and personal communications, satellite services, ONP (Open Network Provision) and interconnection principles, and full competition, with emphasis on universal service obligations, interconnection and access policies, rights of way, and obligations of operators retaining significant market power.
In the field of the telematic networks, our firm is particularly involved in providing legal assistance to clients with regard to their broadcasting activities by means of new techniques, like web-casting, streaming and terrestrial digital techniques related to radio or TV services. In this field we are frequently requested to assists our clients in the administrative licensing procedures to be carried out by the Italian Communications Authority relating to the authorizations required for via-cable or satellite radio or TV broadcasting and for the radio or TV broadcasting in digital terrestrial technique according to the Regulations enacted by the Authority
We have a significant experience in every field connected with ITC business, as computer-related communications, intellectual property, international fiber optic cables, software and broadcasting. A specific advice to telecommunications clients has been provided on strategic matters of interest for the introduction of new services, such as: regulatory framework analysis, privatization, comparative overview of regulatory regimes, application of liberalization principles, regulatory due diligence for public offerings as well as for private acquisitions, negotiation and execution of interconnection and roaming agreements, licensing, radio and satellite spectrum frequency allocation, limited resources attribution and privacy related issues.
We also advise network, services and apparatus telecommunications companies on all commercial, antitrust and regulatory aspects of offering of services, including homologation of terminal equipment, standardization, installation and maintenance contracts, outsourcing, interconnection, homing and management of premises and apparatus.
Our specialised legal services include the introduction and regulation of services, the rules for transmission and access, use of low frequencies, establishment of consortia for mobile services and wireless access, numerical flow capacity, antitrust regulations and placement on the market, radio frequency and satellite service assignment, and supervision of approval procedures for communications equipment.
Our specialised services in the telecommunications sector are broken down into the following areas:
Normative-regulatory: normative and regulatory updating services, public relations with sector's authorities, focused consulting on setting up, drafting, filing and monitoring authorization requests for the provision telecommunication and electronic communication's services;
Homologation: assistance and supervision in the homologation, authorization, certification and/or testing procedures of telecommunication network apparatus, nodes and centrals;
Administrative: includes all activities linked to the different phases of evaluation, arrangement of documents, monitoring requests for excavations, passage, authorization and/or license, support in relations with Public Administration officials;
Administrative/Licenses and Authorizations: include legal advice on bids, authorisation and license procedures set up by the Italian Ministry of Communications and by the Italian Communication Authority;
Contractual: assistance in drafting commercial contracts; model-contracts for service provision;
Labour: relations with social security and welfare bodies as well as with subordinate and/or managerial employment agencies;
Corporate law: includes all the activities linked to the different phases of a company life like incorporation, setting up representative offices and branches on behalf of foreign companies in Italy, drafting parasocial agreements, drafting confidentiality and privacy agreements, shareholder's and executive's meetings resolutions, conversions, mergers, splits, equities acquisitions, stock quotations in the Italian and foreign stock exchange market, shares swapping, joint ventures and consortiums constitutions etc.
Legal services provided in the electronic communications sector.
According to the implementation of the so called “EU Telecoms Package” directives (in 2002 and in 2009 with reference to the reform of the 2002 legal framework) all the regulatory rules are set forth within the Italian Code for Electronic Communication (d.lgs. 259/2003 as amended).
We provide specialized legal assistance with regard to the above legal framework in the electronic communication sector, which affects – amongst the others - basic services, mobile and personal communications, satellite services, ONP (Open Network Provision) and interconnection principles, and full competition, with emphasis on universal service obligations, interconnection and access policies, rights of way, and obligations of operators retaining significant market power.
In the field of the telematic networks, our firm is particularly involved in providing legal assistance to clients with regard to their broadcasting activities by means of new techniques, like web-casting, streaming and terrestrial digital techniques related to radio or TV services. In this field we are frequently requested to assists our clients in the administrative licensing procedures to be carried out by the Italian Communications Authority relating to the authorizations required for via-cable or satellite radio or TV broadcasting and for the radio or TV broadcasting in digital terrestrial technique according to the Regulations enacted by the Authority
We have a significant experience in every field connected with ITC business, as computer-related communications, intellectual property, international fiber optic cables, software and broadcasting. A specific advice to telecommunications clients has been provided on strategic matters of interest for the introduction of new services, such as: regulatory framework analysis, privatization, comparative overview of regulatory regimes, application of liberalization principles, regulatory due diligence for public offerings as well as for private acquisitions, negotiation and execution of interconnection and roaming agreements, licensing, radio and satellite spectrum frequency allocation, limited resources attribution and privacy related issues.
We also advise network, services and apparatus telecommunications companies on all commercial, antitrust and regulatory aspects of offering of services, including homologation of terminal equipment, standardization, installation and maintenance contracts, outsourcing, interconnection, homing and management of premises and apparatus.
