/telecom?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section Latest articles for: Telecommunications Copyright 2025 ¼«ËÙÈü³µ. en-US Fri, 01 Aug 2025 23:47:18 +0000 /telecom/articles/2372544?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /telecom/articles/2372544 A Manhattan federal judge on Friday rejected a request from 16 states to block the Trump administration from cutting millions of dollars in grant funds from the National Science Foundation for scientific research and programs aimed at enhancing diversity, equity and inclusion in STEM fields and environmental justice. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 22:45:36 +0000 /telecom/articles/2370813?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /telecom/articles/2370813 Acting U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director Coke Morgan Stewart dismissed most of the 50 petitions for inter partes review addressed in her latest decisions over discretionary denials at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 22:29:50 +0000 /telecom/articles/2372006?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /telecom/articles/2372006 A federal judge erred in tossing class claims accusing Amazon of collecting consumers' voice data without their consent, including by finding that a third-party software company was a "financial institution," the named plaintiffs told the Third Circuit Fri, 01 Aug 2025 21:44:01 +0000 /telecom/articles/2372431?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /telecom/articles/2372431 Two Virginia-based right-wing activists accepted a plea on felony charges on Friday for leading a misinformation robocall campaign that discouraged Black voters from voting by mail in the 2020 election, the Michigan attorney general's office announced. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 21:18:20 +0000 /telecom/articles/2371692?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /telecom/articles/2371692 Minority shareholders in telecommunications infrastructure firm Continental Towers LATAM Holding say they are not the ones stopping an arbitral award from being enforced, and have tried to comply with the court's orders but are "caught in the cross-hairs of a personal vendetta." Fri, 01 Aug 2025 19:12:32 +0000 /telecom/articles/2372447?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /telecom/articles/2372447 A quartet of Senate Democrats called Friday for the U.S. Department of Justice's internal watchdog to look for "improper business and political considerations" in the settlement permitting Hewlett Packard Enterprise's $14 billion purchase of Juniper Networks. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 18:20:53 +0000 /telecom/articles/2372470?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /telecom/articles/2372470 A bipartisan pair of lawmakers filed a bill Thursday to ensure the Federal Communications Commission keeps tabs on the accuracy of broadband maps used to pinpoint where funding is needed for high-speed internet service. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 18:01:39 +0000 /telecom/articles/2371967?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /telecom/articles/2371967 U.S. Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., is floating a proposal that would require TikTok to be transparent about how it displays content and limit foreign access to user data in order to allow the app to escape a legislative mandate to cut ties with its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, or face a nationwide ban. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 17:38:54 +0000 /telecom/articles/2372192?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /telecom/articles/2372192 A cannabis company in the process of going out of business cannot rely on a state court receivership to shield it from creditors in other states, and the owners of shuttered Norwood Hospital can't renew an expired permit issued to bankrupt Steward Health. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 17:37:10 +0000 /telecom/articles/2372291?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /telecom/articles/2372291 The U.S. Department of Justice abandoned its challenge of a corporate travel management deal, while lawmakers are calling for scrutiny of the agency's recent decision to settle a different case, and the Federal Trade Commission agreed to nix the requirements placed on a pair of oil and gas deals. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 17:15:37 +0000 /telecom/articles/2372446?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /telecom/articles/2372446 The University of Utah has received special dispensation to use spectrum set aside for the Citizens Broadband Radio Service for its "valuable, innovative research," the Federal Communications Commission revealed. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 17:04:11 +0000 /telecom/articles/2372193?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /telecom/articles/2372193 The Federal Communications Commission might have been "excessively, and perhaps unintentionally, stringent" when it was drafting the new rules for undersea cables, a trade group told the agency, particularly when it comes to character disqualifications. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 16:56:27 +0000 /telecom/articles/2367457?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /telecom/articles/2367457 After the U.S. Supreme Court recently struck down the practice of nationwide injunctions in Trump v. Casa, Section 1983 civil rights suits can provide a better pathway to hold the government accountable — but this will require reforms to qualified immunity, says Marc Levin at the Council on Criminal Justice. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 16:44:43 +0000 /telecom/articles/2372349?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /telecom/articles/2372349 The Ninth Circuit on Friday granted Google's same-day request for an emergency administrative pause on a looming deadline to open up the tech giant's Play Store to alternative app distribution after the appellate court upheld a landmark antitrust win for Epic Games. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 16:40:07 +0000 /telecom/articles/2372245?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /telecom/articles/2372245 Consumer advocates urged the Federal Communications Commission to reject changes floated by banking groups to rules for revoking consumer consent to receive calls and texts, saying they would cause confusion and make it harder to block unwanted contacts. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 16:19:37 +0000 /telecom/articles/2372313?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /telecom/articles/2372313 The Federal Circuit on Friday affirmed a handful of Patent Trial and Appeal Board decisions that found claims across four patents on increasing network communication speed owned by Israeli tech company Bright Data were invalid. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 15:28:40 +0000 /telecom/articles/2372275?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /telecom/articles/2372275 A Texas bankruptcy judge signed off Friday on the going-concern sale of fiber network provider Everstream, which plans to use proceeds from the $384.6 million sale of its business to exit Chapter 11. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 15:17:30 +0000 /telecom/articles/2371438?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /telecom/articles/2371438 In contrast with the Biden administration, the second Trump administration has signaled a renewed willingness to resolve merger enforcement concerns through remedies from the outset, particularly when the proposed fix is structural, clearly addresses the harm and does not require burdensome oversight, say attorneys at Cooley. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 11:39:07 +0000 /telecom/articles/2372126?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /telecom/articles/2372126 This past week in London has seen several telco giants hit with a trademark claim, a collapsed hotel company sue a property investor in an ongoing dispute over a decades-old hotel sale, and two litigation funders square off against each other. Thu, 31 Jul 2025 23:14:10 +0000 /telecom/articles/2371448?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /telecom/articles/2371448 Yahoo says a Chubb subsidiary is obligated to cover regulatory fines that might be leveled against one of the tech company's subsidiaries for violating the European Union's data privacy law, but the insurer has refused to honor the policy, according to a lawsuit filed this week in Delaware.