The European Commission’s antitrust division has requested information from five...
The European Commission’s antitrust division has requested information from five major telecom operators and the GSM Association relating to the manner in which standardization for future services in mobile communications is taking place, a spokeswoman for the Competition Directorate General…
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said Wednesday. The companies involved are Deutsche Telekom, France Télécom, Telefónica, Vodafone and Telecom Italia, she said. The EC hasn’t opened formal competition proceedings and “these fact-finding steps do not mean that we have competition concerns at this stage, nor do they pre-judge the followup,” she told us. The EC’s concerns spring from a series of meetings that began last year in which the companies discussed issues such as mobile payments and the challenges posed by Google, Apple and other U.S. tech giants, the Financial Times reported. The GSMA confirmed that it recently received correspondence from the EC which it will respond to in due course, the FT said.