Jones Day can field a team for global telecommunications that spans three continents: the North America, Europe, and Asia. Our services to this international industry include various aspects of law involving business development, corporate structure, regulatory compliance, antitrust, trade regulations, intellectual property, and litigation.

We have experience that crosses all of the relevant sectors -- access technologies, fibre optics, public switching, telephony, wireless and satellite -- and our global network of lawyers covers key geographical markets in the domestic U.S., Europe, Asia, and India. Our clients are diverse. We work with both incumbents and new entrants, equipment manufacturers and traditional broadcast and telecommunications providers.

Following are a few examples of our recent telecommunications work. You may access a comprehensive listing by clicking on the Experience link on the left-hand side of this page.

We represent France Télécom in its proposed acquisition of Amena, Spain's #3 mobile operator, and advised Nextel in its merger of equals with Sprint. Jones Day has counseled Nextel since its start as Fleet Call in 1987; one of its founders was a Jones Day regulatory lawyer. In India, we represented Escorts Ltd. in the sale of its mobile telecom business to Idea Cellular Limited, the largest wireless industry acquisition in India to date.

We regularly represent clients before the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in a variety of regulatory matters including telecommunications service license applications, tariff proceedings, applications for earth stations, satellite system and terrestrial wireless licenses, earth station access and launch authority applications, equipment certification, broadcasting, administrative advocacy and rulemaking participation, petitions for declaratory rulings, and petitions for assignment or transfer of control of telecommunications service licenses. Our international regulatory practice includes representation of clients before the EC in Brussels and its Member States' regulatory authorities, as well as the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) in Geneva. We advise regarding the allocation of radio spectrum among competing services offerings at the ITU, proceedings leading to such allocations, and appearances before the ITU regarding operating communications satellite systems. We are regulatory and competition counsel for the Global Association of GSM Operators. Recent European cases include MCI WorldCom/Sprint and Telia/Telenor.

Jones Day's Business Restructuring and Reorganization lawyers have led large and complex reorganizations for troubled issuers and enterprises, such as WilTel Communications Group (f.k.a. Williams Communications Group, Inc.) (debtor), Globalstar LP (debtor), Excite@Home Corp. (secured lenders), GST Communications (equipment lenders), Iridium LLC (bondholders) and WorldCom (Lucent Technologies, NASDAQ). We have also advised major industry players, such as Lucent Technologies and Nextel Communications, in the restructuring of major vendor-financed secured credit facilities and the acquisition of key assets from financially distressed telecommunications concerns.

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Bernard E. Amory
Brussels
Tel: 32.2.645.14.11
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Robert A. Mittelstaedt
San Francisco
Tel: 1.415.626.3939
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Delbert D. Smith
Washington
Tel: 1.202.879.3939
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Marcus Woo
Taipei
Tel: 886.2.7712.3399 / 886.2.2704.6808
Beijing
Tel: 86.10.5866.1111
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