Phuong N. Pham focuses on domestic and international communications matters, including licensing and regulatory compliance, transactions and litigation involving telecommunications carriers, antenna and wireless carriers, satellite service providers, providers of new technology services and equipment manufacturers, and broadcast stations.

Mr. Pham's regulatory practice includes advising and representing clients before the Federal Communications Commission and California Public Utilities Commission on all aspects of federal and state communications law. His transactional practice includes negotiating network service agreements, inter-carrier contracts and other telecommunications-related contracts. Mr. Pham also represents telecommunications carriers and other companies in litigation on issues such as license revocation, interconnection, rate regulation, telephone billing practices and broadcast advertising.

Before joining Morrison & Foerster in 1999, Mr. Pham was an associate at the Washington, D.C. office of Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP (1994-1998) and at the San Francisco office of Young, Vogl, Harlick, Wilson & Simpson LLP (1998-1999), where he also focused on communications law.

• Advised and represented major national wireless carrier in various FCC rulemaking and licensing proceedings.
• Negotiated license and interconnection agreements for wireless carrier in Afghanistan.
• Successfully defeated challenge in federal appellate court against state and federal regulations allowing paging carrier to obtain reciprocal compensation in an interconnection dispute.
• Successfully prosecuted FCC application for authorization to provide mobile satellite service.