Practice Areas & Industries: Carlton Fields, P.A.

Practice Group Overview

The world travels on the "information superhighway" ¿ locally, nationally, and globally. The advent of the Internet alone has transformed the telecommunications industry into the single most critical component in today's world economy. Every aspect of daily life is touched and shaped by telecommunications, from entertainment to medicine to national security, spawning new technologies, new industries, and new regulatory issues. The landmark Telecommunications Act of 1996, for example, had enormous impact on the telecommunications field, eliminating many rate controls and artificial regulation barriers. This encouraged local telephone service providers to become the long-distance providers, cable television providers to get into the local telephone business, and on and on. Carlton Fields attorneys have extensive experience in all aspects of telecommunications law, in all courts, representing all categories of telecommunications providers, including telephone, traditional radio and television broadcast, cable, Internet, satellite, and others.