Access to fast, reliable and secure Internet and broadband connections is essential to modern life and business. Whether you provide or purchase Internet and broadband services or integrate them into other products, you want to maximize profitability by minimizing unnecessary compliance burdens, locally and globally.

That's where Dentons comes in. We partner with you to structure practical deals that you can implement with less risk of costly, distracting disputes or service failures.

We assemble integrated teams so you can leverage our in-depth knowledge of privacy and data security, intellectual property and online advertising/marketing. Working together, we find the right path through complex carrier and ISP regulations, including those involving universal/basic services, non-discrimination/net neutrality obligations and cooperation with local and national law enforcement authorities. By considering all the relevant angles we help you strike the right balance between business opportunity and risk. Put our experience to work:

• Securing authority to provide service
• Structuring service offerings
• Negotiating agreements to sell or purchase broadband or Internet services
• Negotiating peering/transiting agreements
• Obtaining access to public rights-of-way for deployment
• Resolving disputes with vendors and customers
• Meeting regulatory compliance and responding to enforcement actions
• Lobbying governmental and regulatory authorities
• Securing subsidies for service and devices in high cost or insular areas.

Use our bandwidth to broaden your own, with more solutions and less risk.

Insights

M2M services as regulated telecommunications services — Federal Network Agency adopts classification

April 4, 2023

Germany: In mid-March, the German Federal Network Agency (Bundesnetzagentur) publicized a statement on the classification of machine-to-machine (M2M) and Internet of Things (IoT) services as telecommunications services.

New EU obligations to equip buildings with fiber-optic cables

March 6, 2023

EU: The EU Commission's draft Gigabit Infrastructure Act published on February 23, 2023 is designed to implement goals of the 2030 policy program for the digital decade. To facilitate gigabit rollout to end users, buildings are to be made "fiber ready". Learn about the possible implications that this upcoming regulation may have for real estate projects in our client alert.

More German IT / Telecommunication companies become operators of critical infrastructure – Foreign investments may trigger FDI notification requirement!

October 29, 2021

Germany: Recently, the German Federal Government passed a new amendment to the BSI Critical Infrastructure Ordinance (BSI-KritisV). More companies in the IT/Telecommunications sector – but also in other sensitive sectors – will qualify as operators of “critical infrastructure”.

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News and Events

Recent Press Releases

Dentons Bingham Greenebaum advises Intelligent Fiber Network in its acquisition by leading infrastructure provider

June 15, 2021

Dentons Bingham Greenebaum served as legal advisor to Intelligent Fiber Network (IFN) in its acquisition by Zayo Group Holdings, Inc, a leading provider of bandwidth infrastructure with dense, high-quality networks across North America and Western Europe.  Zayo announced in March 2021 it had entered into a definitive agreement to acquire IFN. The acquisition was completed June 1, 2021.

Dentons advises Infracapital on the acquisition of the fiber optic network operator BBV Deutschland

July 3, 2020

Global law firm Dentons advised Infracapital Partners Funds on the acquisition of the German fiber optic network operator Breitbandversorgung Deutschland (BBV) from RiverRock.