Communications

The telecommunications industry has undergone such a fundamental transformation – mainly by changes in technology and the advent of the internet in particular – that it should more correctly now be referred to as the Communications industry. Lawyers in our Communications team have extensive experience and expertise advising and assisting traditional telecoms and other communications companies and their corporate customers on a wide range of agreements and regulatory issues that the industry now has to contemplate and address in today’s highly regulated and fast moving world of virtually instant communications.

We advise on:

  • licensing regulations and applications in Hong Kong
  • colocation agreements
  • data centre outsourcing agreements including all related telecoms issues and agreements
  • rights clearance and licensing issues and agreements for telecoms companies offering media services
  • technology licensing and enabling agreements to telecoms companies offering media services
  • sector relevant regulatory issues in Hong Kong and other jurisdictions
  • cross border agreements

 

Lawyers in our Communications team have advised on:

  • advising a major telecoms provider in Hong Kong on the establishment of an ISP service
  • advising a major telecoms provider in Hong Kong on the establishment of a VOD service
  • advising a major telecoms provider in the UK on rights clearance and licensing issues in film and TV programmes and music for a proposed VOD service in the UK
  • advising one of the world’s largest manufacturers of mobile phones on various regulatory, contractual and other issues in Hong Kong, China, the rest of Asia and around the world