Ofcom fines Royal Mail £50m for access pricing discrimination
14 August 18
Miklós Kozma
Royal Mail abused its dominant position in bulk mail delivery by discriminating against its wholesale customers that sought to compete with it in this market.
Correos missed the quality of service targets in 2017
13 August 18
Armen Ghalumyan
Correos, the Spanish postal universal service provider (USP) failed to meet its quality transit times for letter and parcel delivery in 2017. CNMC, the national regulator, published its annual report on quality indicators in the universal postal service. CNMC demanded that Correos should immediately act to ensure compliance with the delivery standards, especially for parcels up to 20kg.
ARCEP validates the increase of La Poste's universal service tariffs for 2019
10 August 18
Virginie Alloo
The French regulator, ARCEP, has approved the increase proposed by La Poste for the level of tariffs for universal services in 2019. La Poste proposed that prices for universal services will increase on average by 5%, which is the annual rate of increase allowed by ARCEP.
The Italian regulator fines Amazon for unauthorised postal services
09 August 18
Stefano De Luca
The Italian regulator, AGCOM, fined Amazon a total of €300,000 for offering postal services without proper authorisation.
Ofcom proposes to increase the level of the price cap for second class letters
06 August 18
Tomasz Kulinski
Ofcom is consulting until 4 October 2018 on its proposals to raise the level of the price cap for second class standard letters by 5%. The level of the price cap for large letters and parcels up to 2kg will not change.
ANACOM strengthens postal quality of service requirements in Portugal
23 July 18
Kyrylo Prymak
ANACOM more than doubled the number of quality targets that must be met for universal postal services in Portugal, in addition making some of the targets much tougher.