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Mogin Law LLP

T-Mobile Buys UScelluar After Clearing Antitrust Review

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The U.S. wireless market consolidated a bit more on Aug. 1 when T-Mobile US, Inc. completed its acquisition of UScellular’s wireless operations. The deal went through after receiving antitrust clearance from the Department of...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

T-Mobile’s $31.5 Million Data Protection and Cybersecurity Settlement with the FCC

Last week, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced a data protection and cybersecurity settlement with T-Mobile, resolving the FCC’s investigations related to the data breaches suffered by T-Mobile that affected...more

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

And T-Mobile Makes Three: More Information Security Guidance for Telecommunications Carriers from the FCC

Close on the heels of its Consent Decrees with TracFone and AT&T, on September 27, 2024, the Enforcement Bureau of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced that it reached a Consent Decree with T-Mobile US, Inc....more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

A Wake-Up Call for Data Privacy in the Telecom Sector

The FCC continues to take a more active role in privacy with its enforcement of the customer propriety network information (“CPNI”) regulations. Recently, the FCC released Forfeiture Orders against the three largest mobile...more

Klein Moynihan Turco LLP

FCC Fines Major Wireless Carriers For Data Privacy Violations

On April 29, 2024, the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) announced that it had fined the nation’s largest wireless carriers a total of $196 million for violating consumer data privacy rights. AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

Financial Daily Dose 11.06.2019 | Top Story: Walgreens Boots Working With PE Firms to Go Private

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Bloomberg is reporting that Walgreens Boots is weighing a potential deal “to take the company private in what could become the largest leveraged buyout in history.” PE firms like KKR are apparently in the mix to assist in the...more

Hogan Lovells

FCC Announces Participants in Auction 103

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In a Public Notice released October 7, 2019, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced the status of the 39 short-form applications for Auction 103, which is scheduled to begin on December 10, 2019. ...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

Financial Daily Dose 5.21.2019 | Top Story: FCC Approves T-Mobile/Sprint Merger

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FCC Chair Ajit Pai gave his agency’s stamp of approval to the pending $26 billion T-Mobile/Sprint merger on Monday, helping move the deal towards completion based on pledges from the companies to develop “a robust 5G network...more

Best Best & Krieger LLP

Ordinance Regulating Aesthetics of Wireless in Public Rights of Way OK’d by California Supreme Court - Decision in T-Mobile West...

Yesterday marked a win for local government in the fight against preemption over local control of their streets. The California Supreme Court issued a decision in the T-Mobile West LLC v. City and County of San Francisco...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

Your Daily Dose of Financial News

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The SEC has taken its first enforcement action against a hedge fund over its cryptocurrency investments—namely, falsely holding itself out as the “first regulated fund in the U.S. focused on crypto assets.” It also targeted a...more

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Alphabet Soup and Data Security

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In the span of two days, mobile device users learned of two data breaches that could compromise their personal data. In one, Experian (a credit reporting agency) reported that it was hacked, potentially putting 15 million...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Ringing Regulatory Rumors: Deutsche Telekom Purportedly Agrees to Sell T-Mobile US

Reports circulated out of Japan and Germany late last week indicating Deutsche Telekom AG, owner of T-Mobile US Inc., reached a tentative agreement to sell T-Mobile to Softbank, owner of Sprint Corp. The potential merger of...more

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