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competition

Competition in the communications sector is complex and fast-changing. This presents both risks and opportunities to providers, as well as challenges for public authorities.

Our competition intelligence services help organisations understand the changing face of competition. We help them grasp the commercial and policy implications of new developments, and make decisions with efficiency and confidence.

Offered on a subscription basis, the service includes alerts, reports, and a database of case summaries written in English. You can also contact our competition law experts at any time for answers to specific questions.

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antitrust & mergers

Our Antitrust & Mergers service makes it simple to follow key trends in competition law and its enforcement. Covering the telecoms, media and postal sectors, as well as the digital economy, our intelligence helps leaders:

    • Stay informed on developments in abuse of dominance cases, covering infringements such as excessive pricing, predatory pricing, margin squeeze, self-preferencing, and tying and bundling.
    • Access data on the actions taken across the EU to address potentially anti-competitive agreements, such as network co-investment and sharing, and online sales restrictions in distribution agreements.
    • Track merger control cases to understand the wider implications of market consolidation for competition in Europe.

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state aid & subsidies

Our State Aid & Subsidies service offers intelligence on EU rules designed to ensure that public support measures in telecoms and the digital economy do not unduly distort competition and private investment. The principal focus of the service lies in the application of state aid rules to subsidised broadband deployment and take-up measures.

Subscribe to our State Aid & Subsidies intelligence service to:

    • understand the allowances and limits of public funding for broadband under EU state aid rules
    • follow the enforcement of these rules in relation tother developments, such as unfair advantages in spectrum auctions and big tech taxation
    • gain insights into key EU funding initiatives in telecoms and the digital economy, such as the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) and the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF)
    • understand the implications of the EU Foreign Subsidies Regulation (FSR)

     

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Latest Antitrust & Mergers intelligence

Top EU competition official pushes back against calls for more lenient approach to mobile telecoms mergers
21 October 24 Miklós Kozma

According to Olivier Guersent, director-general of the European Commission’s DG Competition, telecoms operators have not made a convincing case for more in-country consolidation.

Swiss Post/Fenaco electric vehicle charging joint venture 2024
18 October 24 Miklós Kozma

The European Commission unconditionally cleared the creation of a 50/50 joint venture by Swiss incumbent postal operator Swiss Post and Fenaco, Switzerland’s largest agricultural cooperative. The joint venture will operate a nationwide fast charging network for electric vehicles in Switzerland.

Explainer: Antitrust aspects of geo-blocking of audiovisual content in the EU
16 October 24 Janne Kalliala

This report explains the conditions under which territorial exclusivity clauses in audiovisual content licensing agreements may breach article 101 TFEU.

Latest State Aid & Subsidies intelligence

Explainer: Connecting Europe Facility (CEF)
21 October 24 Janne Kalliala

The CEF is an EU funding instrument operational from 2021 to 2027. It aims to support the development of high-performing, sustainable and efficiently interconnected trans-European networks in the energy, digital and transport sectors. This Explainer focuses on CEF Digital, to which €2.1bn is allocated.

Connecting Europe Facility (CEF): EU funding plans in the digital sector until 2027
21 October 24 Janne Kalliala

The European Commission's second work programme for CEF Digital allocates around €865m in EU funding between 2024 and 2027 to support fast and secure digital connectivity networks.

e&/PPF Telecom Group foreign subsidies 2024
25 September 24 Miklós Kozma

Update: The European Commission conditionally approved under the EU Foreign Subsidies Regulation the proposed acquisition of a controlling majority stake in PPF Telecom Group by Emirates Telecommunication Group Company (e&). The commitments include the removal of the unlimited state guarantee enjoyed by e&.

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For more information about our Competition services, please contact:

Janne Kalliala phone: +39 348 69 18 879 janne.kalliala@cullen-international.com