Overview

With over 15 years of experience regularly advising on law, policy and regulation, and handling complex projects across the telecoms sector, our telecommunications lawyers can offer clients in-depth knowledge of telecommunications law.

Our lawyers offer genuine sector expertise with key team members having undertaken placements with multi-national network operators.

Areas of focus:

Our telecommunications team can assist with all aspects of telecommunications. Our expertise includes:

  • Regulatory matters, including spectrum award and licences.
  • The application of Code Powers including the exercising of operator rights.
  • Mobile network service agreements.
  • Network sharing agreements.
  • Mobile Virtual Network Operator arrangements.
  • Interconnection arrangements.
  • Managed site service agreements.
  • Build to suit arrangements.
  • Fibre deployments.
  • Supply and manufacture agreements.
  • Domestic and cross border mergers and acquisitions, equity investments and joint ventures in the telecoms sector.
  • Terrestrial broadcasting and the internet.
  • Telecoms outsourcing and managed services agreements.
  • Datacentre arrangements.
  • 5G networks
Experience

Advising investors on the telecoms regulatory framework for fibre rollouts in the UK.

Advising on the set-up of a fibre optic network 186K on both planning and real estate issues involving acquisition of POP (point of presence) hubs and acquisition of rights through code powers.

Advising a telecoms infrastructure provider on its master site services agreement with its lead telco customer.

Preparing international supply and manufacturing agreements for a leading femtocell vendor.

Preparing an agreement for the manufacture of certain base station products for use with mobile telephony. 

Advising on business model and structuring global commercial agreements to position a multi-national telecoms company as a global outsourcer.

Drafting agreements to deliver machine to machine (or M2M) smart technologies, particularly in the insurance and healthcare sector.

Drafting various agreements from the point of view of both supply chain and sell-side, including MVNO agreements, network sharing agreements and other mobile service agreements, for example, mobile voice recording.

Advising a multi-national mobile operator on the implementation of managed mobile services globally.

Drafting and advising on various data centre and cloud computing agreements in the financial and insurance sectors, including outsourced cloud data storage, database and security services, ‘everything as a service’.

Advising a FTSE 112 automotive company on the consolidation and renegotiation of its long-term global telecommunications outsourcing arrangements.

Advising a leading soft drinks manufacturer on its entire data centre outsourcing.

Advising on telecoms regulatory issues including fixed-mobile convergence, compliance with the General Conditions of Entitlement (including in relation to new VoIP products) and numbering issues.

Advising a transport operator on its arrangements for the extension of its mobile coverage network.

Meet the team
Jeremy Dickerson

Jeremy Dickerson Partner

  • Head of International 
  • Head of Intellectual Property, Media and Sport
  • Defamation and Reputation Management
Mark Shepherd

Mark Shepherd Partner

  • Head of Private Equity
  • Corporate
  • Healthcare
Chris Preston

Chris Preston Partner

  • Real Estate Disputes
  • Real Estate Development
  • Telecommunications
Lucy Pegler

Lucy Pegler Partner

  • Technology and Communications
  • Data Protection and Cybersecurity
  • Outsourcing

What others say...

Burges Salmon has an extremely impressive practice.

Legal 500, IT and Telecoms 2018 edition

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Lucy Pegler

Lucy Pegler Partner

  • Technology and Communications
  • Data Protection and Cybersecurity
  • Outsourcing

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