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Laura Phillips, ex-Faegre Drinker, launches Phillips Communications Law, focused on telecom … TDS Telecom promotes Shane West to chief operating officer … Following its acquisition of Broadcast Microwave Services, Vislink Technologies announces Bill Sweeney, ex-Troll Systems and ex-BMS, as managing director-military government business … With EchoStar completing its Dish acquisition, combined company fixes board at 11 members, appointing Dish CEO-President Hamid Akhavan; directors from Dish; Kathleen Abernathy, Cantey Ergen, Stephen Bye, James DeFranco, George Brokaw and Tom Ortolf; and directors from EchoStar Stanton Dodge, Lisa Hershman and William Wade; Charles Ergen continues as chairman … MediaCo Holding hires iHeart Media’s Chris Squire as senior vice president-sales and marketing, HOT 97 and WBLS(FM) New York ... Zeasn, developer of the Whale television operating system, hires Roku’s Mike Duin as vice president-global marketing and communications and adds him to its global strategy committee ... Carbyne, provider of emergency response call management software, taps Synchronoss Technologies’ Chris Hill, also former AT&T, as chief operating officer ... Krista Witanowski, ex-Meta, joins FCC as legal adviser-Office of Engineering and Technology ... Huading Awards Group announces resignation of filmmaker Wang Haige as chairman with the expiration of his term.
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Pasadena, Texas, seeks the reversal of the 5th U.S. Circuit Appeals Court affirmation of the district court’s judgment that Section 253 of the Telecommunications Act preempts the spacing and undergrounding requirements in the city’s design manual for the installation of small cells and support poles in its public rights of way, said the city’s U.S. Supreme Court cert petition (docket 23-698). The petition was filed Dec. 26 and docketed Thursday, said a clerk's notice Friday.