As more and more companies and individuals rely upon instantaneous connections across global markets, their dependence upon wire-line and wireless networks has reached the point of critical necessity. At Foley Hoag, we provide advice to our clients at every level of the telecommunications business. This includes helping technology start-ups design business plans, and assisting BOCs, CLECs and CAPs in a wide range of agreements and transactions. These arrangements include negotiating telecommunications equipment collocations, wireless cell-tower sites, and all aspects of fiber-cable network development and construction, including IRUs and right-of-way permitting with public and private parties. learn more

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  • Economic Crisis Team Datasheet [Read More]
  • Failure to Obtain Opinion of Counsel May Be Evidence of Intent to Induce Infringement [Read More]
  • Final 409A Deadline Looming: All Deferred Compensation Arrangements Must be in Full Compliance by December 31, 2008 [Read More]
  • EEC Perspectives - September 2008 [Read More]
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October 19, 2008 ACC Annual Meeting '08 [Read More] Washington State Convention & Trade Center
Seattle, WA
November 6, 2008 TCN: Funding Expedition™ Mixer [Read More] Foley Hoag LLP (Boston Office)
Boston, MA

Client Successes more

  • Driving Telecommunications Forward
    We were counsel in a billion-dollar merger that created a Luxembourg-based, multinational cellular telephone company, and one of the cellular industry’s first international data and financial clearinghouses. We also helped a Luxembourg-chartered, satellite-based broadband Internet and interactive digital television company with a successful private placement involving high-profile U.S. and European investors. [Read More]
  • PrimeTime 24 Joint Venture
    We represented PrimeTime 24 Joint Venture, a satellite carrier, in lawsuits around the country against the major broadcast networks and their affiliates, as well as against the National Football League, DirecTV, Inc., EchoStar Satellite Corp., and others. Our work with this client extended to proceedings before the Federal Communications Commission and the United States Copyright Office concerning the Satellite Home Viewer Act, eventually leading to the Satellite Home Viewer Improvement Act of 1999. [Read More]