Competition law applies horizontally in all sectors, in addition to sector-specific regulation. The rise of the digital economy is challenging traditional competition law approaches.

Cullen International’s Competition Law service combines unbiased alerts and reports with a structured database of more than 350 English language summaries of national and EU antitrust and merger control cases, organised by country, authority, theme and sector.

Stay tuned over the next weeks for our coverage of five intriguing pending cases that you may not have known about!

Case 3: Drawing the line between cooperation and collusion

In the EU, network sharing is encouraged by law and regulation, including because it may lead to a more efficient use of resources and increased network coverage.
Nevertheless, sharing is subject to competition law scrutiny as it may result in anticompetitive coordination between competitors.

In our third highlighted case, the Hungarian competition authority is investigating whether the spectrum lease agreement between the Hungarian incumbent, Magyar Telekom, and the second biggest Hungarian mobile network operator, Telenor Hungary, complies with competition rules.

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