Industry: Telecoms services

A Kosovan government-owned mobile operator has failed to overturn a €10 million ICC award that found it breached an obligation to negotiate a contract renewal in good faith.

21 July 2023

A court in Dubai’s financial freezone has refused to grant an injunction to prevent enforcement of a US$490 million judgment against Iraqi Kurdistan pending an ICC arbitration.

19 July 2023

Kuwait’s Agility and France’s Orange have won a Cayman freezing injunction against a prominent Iraqi businessman and military commander in aid of efforts to enforce a US$1.6 billion ICC award.

22 June 2023

Turkmenistan has defeated a US$2 billion ICSID claim filed by a Russian telecoms multinational over the alleged expropriation of its business in the country.

15 June 2023

Kosovo says that it has defeated a €45 million ICC claim brought by the owner of a mobile network operator over a contract that has given rise to two earlier awards.

10 April 2023

A German court has ruled that Deutsche Telekom can partially enforce a US$132 million investment treaty award against India over a cancelled satellite deal, finding the state lacked evidence to substantiate its fraud allegations.   

08 February 2023

UPDATED: A Singapore court has upheld a SIAC award favouring Malaysia’s state-owned telecoms company in a US$35 million dispute with a provider of set-top boxes for internet protocol television, finding no evidence the arbitrator failed to keep an open mind.

07 February 2023

A US private equity firm specialising in media and telecoms has warned Latvia of a potential ICSID claim, alleging a local regulator is impeding its investment in the mobile 5G market.

23 January 2023

A company owned by Angolan billionaire Isabel dos Santos has lost a final appeal in the French courts relating to a US$646 million award, failing on arguments that the ICC was wrong to appoint all five members of the tribunal itself or that an arbitrator failed to disclose potential conflicts.

15 November 2022

A subsidiary of Russian-owned telecoms group Veon has failed to revive a US$1.8 billion investment treaty claim against Canada – while the state has also failed to partially annul the award.

03 October 2022