Firm News ·        In recent years, the Firm has represented several long distance resellers in connection with slamming enforcement investigations before the FCC.  Of more than thirty slamming penalties assessed by the FCC’s Enforcement Bureau since 1999, the Firm has the distinction of having secured, on behalf of two clients, the two lowest FCC Consent Decree settlement amounts.   ·        The Firm recently counseled a major interactive telecommunications services provider with respect to structuring its interactive phone-based service in order that it can permissibly operate within the exemptions provided under FCC and state public utilities commission telecommunications regulation.    ·        In 2006, the Firm represented a wireless provider which had sought to sell its GSM network to a large international service provider.  Working with counsel for the other parties to the transaction, the Firm was successful in securing FCC and Executive Branch approval for the $70 million multi-party transaction.    ·        Since 2005, the Firm has filed numerous applications with the FCC regarding corporate reorganizations, mergers, asset acquisitions and other related transfers of control/assignments.  In connection with these applications, the Firm has obtained consent from the FCC for clients to consummate transactions, brought clients who failed to timely obtain FCC approval into regulatory compliance, and obtained special temporary authorizations for clients which were operating outside of their authority.  In the course of this process, the Firm has negotiated agreements with the Executive Branch resolving potential concerns with such acquisitions.   ·        The Firm recently counseled a large service provider owned by a South American government in relation to efforts to negotiate a free trade agreement with the U.S. and to better understand the specific legal and regulatory requirements of the U.S. market.   ·        Our attorneys recently completed representation of a wireless provider in the acquisition of a large number of PCS and SMR licenses, handling the regulatory due diligence process; contract negotiation and preparation; and submission of the necessary FCC assignment applications.   ·        On behalf of a large corporate end user, the Firm simultaneously negotiated three interexchange and international service provider agreements and one local service provider agreement, while advising the client on a successful migration from, and termination of, the services it had been receiving from a major U.S. carrier which had entered into Chapter 11 bankruptcy.   ·         Through its efforts before the FCC, the Firm was successful in obtaining a substantial monetary forfeiture and other sanctions against a car service operator sharing an SMR frequency with one of its clients for operating more mobile units than its license permitted and causing unlawful interference.   ·        In September 2007, Tom Crowe delivered a presentation at the Intele-Card Expo in Las Vegas, Nevada covering prepaid legal issues, including the complex realm of USF exemption certificates and related challenges under the USF program.