We provide relevant legal advice across an ever-expanding range of telecommunications and technology issues, including:

• Broadcasting and transmission agreements
• Co-location agreements
• Linking, interconnection and other network infrastructure sharing issues
• Agreements for the supply and purchase of telecommunications and IT services
• The purchase of specialist telecommunications equipment and services from both on-shore and off-shore suppliers
• Contracts with government agencies to supply telecommunications equipment and services
• Regulatory issues affecting telecommunications and technology businesses (including the Telecommunications Act 2001)
• Broadband fixed wireless telecommunications network access services
• Hardware purchase agreements
• Software licensing and distribution agreements
• Hardware and software maintenance and support agreements
• Spectrum auctions and licensing under the Radiocommunications Act 1989.

Recent experience:

• We have dealt extensively in broadcasting and transmission agreements, e.g. between Kordia Limited and Television New Zealand, Prime TV and Sky.
• Advising on the agreement between Kordia Limited and Telecom for the roll-out of wireless broadband internet to the provinces.
• The purchase from Airspan (a US stock exchange-listed telecommunications products company) of specialist telecommunications equipment.
• A contract for the provision of aeronautical communications for the civil aviation authority of an overseas government.

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