PRACTICE AREAS

Telecommunications & Technology

Staying abreast of international developments, the telecommunications group of IKRP attends and lectures at conferences, including the International Bar Association Telecommunications Law Committee and the domestic government and industry forum. Recently, IKRP participated as an honorary member at a national policy-making committee.

The firm has assisted clients to participate in the bidding process for Greek mobile telephone contracts and licensing applications for the domestic provision of international services. We also advise multinational enterprises on the issuing of audiotex licenses, on licensing regulations concerning mobile satellite telephony, alternative network establishment, the forthcoming end of the national telecom company's monopoly, as well as on joint ventures and subsidiaries in Greece and in other Southeast European countries. Clients have also been advised in relation to telecoms privatization in other Southeast European states.

IKRP members wrote the chapter for Greece in "Baker & McKenzie's Telecommunication Laws in Europe", a comprehensive guide to law, regulation and practical development in each European State (Sweet & Maxwell, 1998). Members of the firm drafted an 80-page report for the Ministry of Transport and Telecommunications containing commentary and draft legislative proposals relating to radio frequency licensing and modernization of the legislative framework for the telecommunications and frequency regulatory bodies, including comparative studies from the USA, Canada and Europe.