Joseph P. Markoski

Joe’s practice is global and includes both private and public sector clients. He represents private sector clients before the Federal Communocations Commission (FCC), state public utility commissions and national regulatory authorities outside the US in matters involving: the allocation, assignment and use of radio spectrum; licensing; tariffing; interconnection; universal service; satellites; competition law and policy; and the regulation of wireline and wireless communications and other innovative service offerings. He has guided clients with respect to the introduction and deployment of broadband networks and services, as well as the design, manufacture and sale of consumer electronics and telecommunications equipment.

Joe has unique expertise regarding the use of alternative dispute resolution in a regulated environment. In his capacity as chief mediator for the 800 MHz Transition Administrator, Joe developed and oversaw the operation of an innovative alternative dispute resolution program, in which more than 1,900 licensees participated, in connection with the FCC’s reconfiguration of the 800 MHz band, the largest reallocation of spectrum in US history. More recently, Joe was called upon by the Relocation Payment Clearinghouse to serve as chief mediator in connection with the FCC’s reallocation of the C-band from satellite to terrestrial use. Joe developed, implemented and managed an innovation dispute resolution process that helped achieve the FCC’s goal of promptly completing the reallocation of the C-band.

Joe’s private sector practice includes the representation of global and national telecommunications operators and broadband service providers seeking to expand their international operations, negotiate interconnection agreements, and establish satellite and terrestrial fixed and mobile telecommunications networks. Joe has similarly assisted multinational enterprises, including manufacturers and financial service providers, establish global private communications systems. He has also assisted clients with respect to the regulatory aspects of mergers and acquisitions and the public and private debt and equity offerings of telecommunications companies around the world.

Joe’s public sector practice includes the representation of governments and regulatory authorities with the restructuring of their communications regulatory regimes and the privatization of state-owned telecommunications enterprises in Europe, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Caribbean and Latin America. He has also served as counsel to multinational organizations such as the Organization of American States and the European Union in connection with electronic commerce, converging technologies, interconnection and multimedia and information services.