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Latest News in Telecommunications
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April 14, 2025
Ransomware Payouts, Forensic Costs Falling, Law Firm Says
The measures that companies are putting in place to guard against ransomware attacks are starting to pay off, with the amount that's being doled out to contain the impact of these incidents and the cost of forensic investigations dropping last year, according to a new BakerHostetler report.
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April 14, 2025
SEC Won't Revisit WhatsApp Settlements With 16 Firms
A divided U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission refused Monday to redo settlements it inked with 16 financial firms over their failure to keep records of so-called off-channel communications, finding the "settlor's remorse" the firms are suffering because others received better terms is not reason enough to modify their deals.
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April 14, 2025
PAC Treasurer Avoids Prison For $26.4M Fundraising Fraud
A Manhattan federal judge on Monday sentenced the former treasurer of multiple political action committees to 30 months of home detention for a scheme that raised about $26.4 million from small-dollar donors for supporting veterans and other causes, but that saw little of that money go to intended recipients.
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April 14, 2025
Apple Wants Renewed Cloud Storage Monopoly Suit Tossed
Apple has urged a California federal court to toss the latest version of a proposed class action alleging it gives its iCloud service an advantage over third-party cloud storage providers, saying it limits certain remote-backup features for security and privacy.
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April 14, 2025
Verizon Says Unlocking Rules Are Boon To Crime Rings
Verizon is asking the Federal Communications Commission to allow carriers to wait longer before unlocking customers' devices, telling the agency that device locking is one of the only effective tools for combating phone trafficking crime rings.

Areas of Coverage
- AGENCIES
- Federal Communications Commission
- Federal Trade Commission
- U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division
- Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
- White House Office of Science and Technology Policy
- National Telecommunications and Information Administration
- State and local telecom regulators
- POLICY & REGULATION
- Antitrust, consumer protection, and privacy controls
- Telecom lobbying
- International telecom regulation and legislation
- ENFORCEMENT
- Surveillance investigations and enforcement
- FCC administrative proceedings
- Merger reviews
- LITIGATION
- Antitrust suits
- Consumer litigation and class actions
- Privacy disputes, including government surveillance complaints and data breach suits
- Intellectual property issues, including piracy actions
- International trade suits
- Fights over telecom regulatory limits
- Labor and employment suits
- Shareholder litigation
- Bankruptcy proceedings
- TRANSACTIONS
- Mergers, acquisitions, and joint ventures
- Telecom infrastructure projects
- Share buybacks and stock splits
- PROFILES
- Personnel moves
- Profiles of telecommunications law practices
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- Corporate counsel and compliance officers at Fortune 1000 companies
- Executives and attorneys at telecommunications companies
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- Policymakers at federal and state agencies
- Judges and court staff across the U.S.
- Professors, students, and library staff at every accredited law school in the U.S.
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