Articles
11Sep 2023
The text outlines some of the key features of the legal and regulatory framework governing the media sector in Brazil, including broadcast licensing requirements, ownership restrictions, advertising regulations and...
05Sep 2023
In Brazil, the only type of telecommunications service the exploitation of which can occur both in the public regime, with the granting of concessions (or in certain circumstances through instruments of permission), and in the private regime, with the granting of...
16Aug 2023
In the late 1990s, the end of the monopoly of telecommunications services took place in Brazil, which was until then held by companies under state shareholding control and with the exploitation of services being managed by the Telebrás system, which controlled all telephone...
09Aug 2023
Our TMT team, lead by the senior partner Ricardo Barretto Ferreira, with contribution of the Privacy and Data Protection coordinator Lorena Pretti Serraglio, the senior associate Ingrid B. Santos and the associates Bruna Bigas, Carolina Perdomo and Sylvia Elgg are the authors...
28Jun 2023
Against the background of the difficulties imposed by the Covid-19 pandemic, the Brazilian government enacted Law No. 14,172, dated June 10, 2021 (Law No. 14,172/2021), which provided for the guarantee of internet access to students and teachers of public basic education, in an...
04May 2023
The National Telecommunications Agency (Anatel), the regulatory body for Brazilian telecommunications, recently published its 2023-2024 Tactical Management Plan, in which, in its own words, “it seeks to exemplify what the Agency understands as fundamental for the...
23Mar 2023
Our TMT team, lead by the senior partner Ricardo Barretto Ferreira, with the Privacy and Data Protection coordinator, Lorena Pretti Serraglio, the associate Sylvia von Elgg and Juliana Sene Ikeda, who was then part of the Life Sciences team, are the authors of the chapter...
17Mar 2023
Our senior partner and head of the TMT team, Ricardo Barretto is the main author of the chapter Brazil in Digital Health 2023, published by the ICLG.com. The Privacy and Data Protection coordinator, Lorena Pretti Serraglio and Juliana Sene Ikeda, who was then part of the Life...