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NEW - Producing a briefing paper on Broadband in Suffolk for Suffolk’s MPs, local authorities, agencies and fora, on the current, and likely future, availability and take-up of Superfast Broadband in Suffolk, and what more needs to be done to extend coverage beyond the reach of purely commercially-funded deployments.
 Broadband in Suffolk – Briefing Paper. |
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NEW - Advising Huawei on security concerns, and potential mitigating actions, in relation to telecoms equipment. |
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NEW - Advising a number of investment firms on how News Corp’s bid for the remaining stake in BSkyB, which they don’t already own, would be considered within the EU/UK competition authorities merger, and UK public interest, regimes. |
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NEW - Advising a European investment management firm on the European broadband infrastructure market, and the implications for firms that manufacture and/or install ducting for optical fibre cables. |
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Attending the GSM Association's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, 15 - 18 February 2010, to keep up to date on developments in the mobile sector, and to network with potential clients and partners. |
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Advising a US investment management firm on the wholesaling of premium TV content, and the likely implications for one of the key stakeholders in the UK media sector. |
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Advising a US investment management firm on a potential acquisition of a UK operator, on the considerations that would apply under the EU and UK competition authorities’ merger regimes. |
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Advising a hedge fund on the wholesaling of premium TV content and the likely implications for stakeholders in the UK media sector. |
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Advising a US venture capital fund considering an investment in a femtocell device manufacturer and service provider, on the technical, radio spectrum and regulatory issues involved. |
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Providing consulting support to Telstra in responding to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), reviewing the declaration of the Domestic Transmission Capacity Service (DTCS), on the regulation of leased lines in the EU/UK and the implications for regulation in Australia. |
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Advising a major global investment bank on the competition considerations in relation to the proposed joint venture between the BBC, ITV, BT, Channel 4 and Talk Talk (code-named Project Canvas) to develop an open standard for set-top boxes to enable broadcast- and broadband-delivered, linear and on-demand TV programming, to the television. |
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Advising a leading global provider of enterprise Information Communications Technology (ICT) services and solutions on the regulatory obligations of becoming an electronic communications services (ECS) provider of unified communications services (including Voice over IP) to the small-to-medium enterprise (SME) sector. |
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Advising a major overseas telecoms operator on the principles of functional separation and equivalence of inputs, developed as part of Ofcom’s strategic review of telecommunications (which led to the operational separation of BT Openreach), including lessons learned from their implementation. |
