Industry: Telecoms services

Deutsche Telekom has applied to a US court to enforce an investment treaty award worth more than US$135 million against India, revealing that the state “essentially prevailed” during the quantum phase of the case.

20 April 2021

Spain’s Telefónica has filed an ICSID claim against Peru – its fourth against a Latin American state – over the treatment of its local operations by tax authorities.

15 March 2021

An ICSID tribunal has dismissed a Kuwaiti investor’s US$664 million claim against Iraq over the alleged expropriation of a mobile phone operator in Kurdistan – a dispute that has spawned several other arbitrations and bribery allegations.

23 February 2021

A Dutch court has largely lifted attachments on Albanian government oil revenues previously granted to Italian investors seeking to enforce a €110 million ICSID award.

10 February 2021

Chinese telecoms giant Huawei has threatened Sweden with a treaty claim over its exclusion from the rollout of 5G network technology in the country, amid concerns its equipment will be used for spying.

07 January 2021

A US infrastructure services company has filed a new ICSID claim against Peru, two years after it lodged an ICC claim over a terminated project for rural telecommunications networks in the country.

05 January 2021

An ICC tribunal has dismissed a fraud claim against a Brazilian mobile operator owned by Telecom Italia relating to a merger deal with a prominent Rio de Janeiro businessman.

01 July 2016