John Heitmann is a partner in the firm's Washington, D.C. office and a founding member of the Telecommunications practice group. John focuses his practice on representing service providers and users in regulatory, appellate, litigation and transactional matters involving a broad range of communications law issues.
John has more than fifteen years’ experience representing competitive carriers, Internet and Information service providers, and VoIP providers on regulatory policy, compliance, dispute resolution and enforcement matters before federal and state regulatory agencies, and in state, federal and appellate court litigation. He has extensive experience in all types of competitive carrier issues such as interconnection, intercarrier compensation, collocation and unbundling. John has led numerous carrier coalitions in pursuing public policy decisions favorable to competitive providers' business plans on a wide array of issues including privacy/CPNI regulation, federal universal service and merger reviews. He has negotiated and/or arbitrated interconnection and traffic exchange agreements on behalf of CLECs and MSOs with dozens of ILECs and wireless carriers. John also represents carriers in transactional matters involving the sale and procurement of telecommunications, broadband capacity and fiber facilities, and advises clients on regulatory issues arising in the context of product development, strategic planning, mergers and acquisitions.
Over the past five years, John has developed specialized expertise in the area of privacy and data security as applied to broadband providers, mobile marketers and other members of the online ecosystem. Through the International Association of Privacy Professionals, John is a Certified International Privacy Professional. He also is Co-Chair of the Federal Communications Bar Association’s Committee on Privacy and Data Security and has served as Co-Chair of the FCBA’s Committee on State and Local Practice.
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