The Department assists telecommunication, broadcasting and information technology companies on regulatory and commercial issues for market liberalization.

Furthermore, the Firm provides assistance to major telecommunication companies on introduction and regulation of services, broadcasting and access discipline, scarce frequencies use, constitution of mobile and wireless services consortiums, numbering range capacity, antitrust discipline and market placing, radio frequency and satellite service assignation.

The Firm has also assisted consortiums in setting up GSM mobile telephony services and in the issuing process of the third mobile telephony license in Italy.

The Firm has also managed global consulting for national and international telecommunication carriers on all aspects of telecommunication and information technology services (launch of services, numbering policies, numbering selection and capacity, authorization and license, antitrust, connectivity, radio and satellite frequencies assignation), supervising terminal homologation and assisted telecommunication operators in complying with the sector's juridical-legislative and regulatory framework.

The Telecommunications and Multimedia Department specialized services regarding the Telecommunications sector include the following:

Normative-regulatory: normative and regulatory updating services, public relations with sector's authorities, focused consulting on setting up, drafting, filing and monitoring authorization requests for the provision telecommunication and electronic communication's services;

Homologation: assistance and supervision in the homologation, authorization, certification and/or testing procedures of telecommunication's network apparatus, nodes and centrals;

Administrative: includes all activities linked to the different phases of evaluation, arrangement of documents, monitoring requests for excavations, passage, authorization and/or license, support in relations with Public Administration officials;

Contractual: assistance in drafting commercial contracts; model-contracts for service provision;

Labor: relations with social security and welfare bodies as well as with subordinate and/or managerial employment agencies;

Corporate law: includes all the activities linked to the different phases of a company life like incorporation, setting up representative offices and branches on behalf of foreign companies in Italy, drafting parasocial agreements, drafting confidentiality and privacy agreements, shareholder's and executive's meetings resolutions, conversions, mergers, splits, equities acquisitions, stock quotations in the Italian and foreign stock exchange market, shares swapping, joint ventures and consortiums constitutions etc.

Italy transposed (Legislative Decree 1 August 2003, n. 259) the four EU Directives package relative to the telecommunication sector already adopted by European Union on 7 March 2002: the Directive 2002/22/EEC, relative to the universal service obligation (USO) and the user's rights in networks and electronic communication service's matters (universal service directive); the Directive 2002/21/EEC, establishing a common normative framework for networks and electronic communication service's matters (framework directive); the Directive 2002/20/EEC, relative to the authorizations for networks and electronic communication service's matters (authorizations directive) and the Directive 2002/19/EEC, relative to the access to electronic communication's networks and their related resources, and the interconnections of the same (access directive).

The Legislative Decree 259/2003, enforced 16 September 2003, introduced the Unified Code of Electronic Communications, in substitution of the previous Postal Code of 1973. The new code, taking into account the changed technology scenarios, has innovated the sector's discipline object now of Tonucci & Partners specialized services.