Telecom, Media & Technology

 

Besides advising telecom companies on general corporate, finance and employment issues the firm advises clients on core telecom regulatory aspects.  Doulah & Doulah has one of the Bangladesh’s leading telecommunications practices. Since the deregulation of the telecommunications industry in 1995 the firm has been advising new entrants and incumbent telecommunications operators, regulators, equipment suppliers, service providers and users on a wide range of legal and regulatory issues.

 

Doulah & Doulah has experience of managing a vast range of telecommunications projects from legal aspects. These include advising on licensing, lobbying and regulatory matters, and contractual advice and negotiations in relation to network build, outsourcing, equipment and software supply, service provision and many other issues.

 

Doulah & Doulah was also involved in finalization of the Telecommunication Act, 2001 and Licensing Procedure as a review member. The firm is well versed with these laws and have been advising different mobile / fixed operators in Bangladesh on various aspects of regulatory issues such as infrastructure sharing, active sharing, license renewal, competition laws, penalty provisions, compliance issues, unfair treatment issues, imposed quality of service (QoS), benchmark, interconnection, spectrum fees  etc. The firm also advised the operators on recent 2G license renewal issues as a legal expert in the area. Earlier the firm  advised some of the operators while bidding for the WiMax, NTTN and IIG licenses. The firm performed comprehensive overview of the licensing/notification obligations and the legal and regulatory compliance obligations for some international operators.

 

As far as the other aspects of telecommunication area are concerned, the firm has significant experience with respect to financing and structuring of telecommunication projects and companies. Its experience in the areas of public procurement, competition laws and consumer protection laws are considered to have make the firm as a one stop solution center to the clients.

 

The firm has acted as consultants to companies like Grameenphone, GPIT, Nokia, ZTE, Huawei, Consistel Solutions, Vectone Communications, AT&T, Alcatel Lucent, Telenor etc.

 

Recently the firm assisted Norton Rose in a large transaction involving the sale offer of a large portfolio of passive infrastructure of a local GSM operator

 

The firm acted for Cybertel Telecommunications in this project with a joint venture with BRTA for a world-class teleport with 11 meter B station project (Gateway Earth Terminal).

 

The firm acted for Phoenix Wireless in its project for rural telecommunication facility  establishment in a Joint Venture with Bangladesh Rural Telecom Authority.