---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <20190327170435.GA12449@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2019 17:04:35 +0000 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: AT&T Hit With $68M Suit Over Escrow Funds In NII Ch. 11 Law360 (March 26, 2019, 6:53 PM EDT) -- The reorganized version of wireless carrier NII Holdings Inc. has accused a Dutch AT&T unit of holding up the release of $68 million from an escrow account formed from the sale... https://www.law360.com/commercialcontracts/articles/1142951/at-t-hit-with-68m-suit-over-escrow-funds-in-nii-ch-11 -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20190327171421.GA12571@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2019 17:14:21 +0000 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Verizon to offer free robocall blocking Verizon announced the features two months ago and said it had identified nearly 300 million numbers linked to spam and robocalling. The provider is expected to have more information about how to get and use the app by the end of this week, Forbes reported. "That is our intention," Richard Young, director of corporate communications at Verizon, told USA TODAY in an email. "We could have a formal announcement by the end of the week." https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/verizon-robocall-blocking-app-free/ -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <453E1B00-3F69-4F8C-9F6E-DB81C995CF71@roscom.com> Date: 27 Mar 2019 07:31:05 -0400 From: "Monty Solomon" <monty@roscom.com> Subject: Apple, Qualcomm Trade Blows in Long-Running Patent Fight U.S. trade body hands each a victory over licensing of chips for iphone iPhone By Asa Fitch and Tripp Mickle Apple Inc. and Qualcomm Inc. each notched victories from a U.S. trade body in their yearslong feud over patent licensing, hardening the divide between them ahead of a federal trial slated to begin next month. https://www.wsj.com/articles/apple-violated-qualcomm-patent-u-s-trade-judge-rules-11553624866 ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20190327171039.GA12472@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2019 17:10:39 +0000 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: DOJ Seeks Lessons from AT&T-Time Warner's Arbitration Offer The Justice Department's antitrust division is strategizing ways to better address companies' arbitration agreements in its future scrutiny of mergers, heeding lessons from its legal battle with AT&T Inc. AT&T and Time Warner's last minute inclusion of "baseball style" arbitration - offered to other cable companies to settle fee disputes - was challenging for the DOJ to overcome as it sued to block their deal. https://news.bloomberglaw.com/mergers-and-antitrust/doj-seeks-lessons-from-at-t-time-warners-arbitration-offer -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Thu, 28 Mar 2019