Tag Archives: European Commission
The proposed creation of a joint venture between UK’s Vodafone, Telefónica and Everything Everywhere in the field of mobile commerce seems have to wait for a bit as the European Commerce has opened an in-depth investigation under the EU Merger Regulation. The Commission’s preliminary investigation indicated potential competition concerns in the nascent markets of...
The European Commission announced today that it has opened two formal antitrust investigations against Motorola Mobility Inc. The Commission will assess whether Motorola has abusively, and in contravention of commitments it gave to standard setting organisations, used certain of its standard essential patents to distort competition in the Internal Market in breach of...
The new deal has been agreed by European MEPs and the EU council presidency (currently occupied by Denmark) to set into motion a plan to cap roaming data charges in EU member states but it still needs approval from the wider EU Parliament in May before going into effect from the 1st of July this year. The proposal states that the cap would be lowered every year until 2014,...
The European Commission is questioning five of Europe’s largest telecommunications companies – Deutsche Telekom, France Telecom, Telecom Italia, Telefónica, and Vodafone – whose CEOs met occasionally, beginning in 2010, over concerns that a series of meetings held among them may have constituted collusion. “The requests for information relate to the manner...
The European Commission has announced Wednesday its plans to refer the controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) treaty to the European Court of Justice in order to examine whether it violates the fundamental rights – counterfeiting, copyright and Internet freedom, of Europeans or not. The ACTA agreement was signed by the European Union and 22 member...
