Technology, Communications & Media

FCC Regulation

• Successfully represented a major consumer products company in connection with a Federal Communications Commission Enforcement Bureau inquiry regarding an advertisement that allegedly violated the Emergency Alert System (EAS) rules.
• Assisted Wi-Fi Alliance in rulemakings that will give it increased access to spectrum to will support advanced technologies.
• Represented a major cable operator in an Enforcement Bureau inquiry into its practice of allowing WiFi routers to serve as hotspots.
• Played in an instrumental role in a major cable operator’s industry-leading efforts to seek modification of the rules governing retransmission consent negotiations between cable operators and broadcast television stations.
• Assisted Trimble Inc., a major manufacturer of GPS equipment, defend a threat by an entity that wished to propose a service in adjacent frequency spectrum that would have threatened the reception of GPS signals.
• Assisted T-Mobile in its successful participation in an FCC auction of advanced wireless service spectrum.

Cable & Telecom Transactions

• Representing a subsidiary of MEASAT Global Berhad in relation to the procurement and launch of a new satellite.
• Represented TPG Global in its $2.365 billion acquisition of Wave Broadband.
• Represented TPG Global in its acquisition from Oak Hill Capital Partners and GI Partners of two cable operators, RCN Telecom Services, LLC and Grande Communications Networks, LLC.
• Represented T-Mobile before the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in its acquisition of radio spectrum covering operations in Montana and Wyoming.
• Represented Straight Path Communications in its merger with Verizon Communications.
• Representing Joink LLC, a DIF CIF II portfolio company owned by DIF Capital Partners, in its purchase of Computer Techniques Inc (CTI).

Privacy & Cybersecurity

• Represent NCTA in its privacy and cybersecurity advocacy.
• Counsel to Comcast, the nation’s largest cable system operator, on cybersecurity policy issues affecting its cable and broadband services.

Cable Copyright

• Representing NCTA in a rulemaking commenced by the Copyright Office in December 2017 to amend various portions of the Office’s rules implementing the compulsory license.
• Represented several major cable operators in audits of their compulsory license Statements of Account.
• Represented the American Cable Association in a Copyright Office inquiry into the need for regulatory or statutory action to improve the Digital Millennium Copyright Act “safe harbor” provisions in order to prevent copyright owners abuses.