LK Shields Solicitors can advise on the following areas:

• Licensing and regulatory frameworks
• Open network provisions
• Liberalisation issues
• Interconnection agreements
• Implications of the relevant Irish and European legislation
• Commercial aspects of telecommunication agreements
• Competition and environmental implications of telecommunications

The telecommunications sector in Ireland has seen much growth and development as a result of EU liberalisation measures and the establishment of the Office of the Director of Telecommunications in 1997, which is now the Commission for Communications Regulation.