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[ NNSquad ] More on Deutsche Telekom
----- Forwarded message from Dave Farber <dave@farber.net> ----- Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2009 09:41:32 -0500 From: Dave Farber <dave@farber.net> Subject: [IP] More on Deutsche Telekom Reply-To: dave@farber.net To: ip <ip@v2.listbox.com> Begin forwarded message: > From: "J. Scott Marcus" <scott@SCOTTMARCUS.COM> > Date: December 4, 2009 8:28:02 AM EST > To: CYBERTELECOM-L@LISTSERV.AOL.COM > Subject: More on Deutsche Telekom > Reply-To: Telecom Regulation & the Internet > <CYBERTELECOM-L@LISTSERV.AOL.COM> > > As promised. The European coverage is much more coherent: > http://www.euractiv.com/en/infosociety/eu-court-sets-precedent-germany-telecoms-ruling/article-188017?_print > > "... In what the European Commission is calling a precedent-setting > case, Germany has been told to stop giving its dominant telecoms > operator, a former state-run monopoly, so-called regulatory holidays – a > relaxation of competition rules. The ruling concerns a German law that > entered into force in 2006, which, according to the Commission, allowed > Deutsche Telekom to bypass EU rules on regulation. The Commission's > rules, bolstered last month with the adoption of a new telecoms package, > say markets must be subject to 'a solid, independent analysis by the > national regulatory authority'. However, the German law foresaw such an > analysis 'only in exceptional circumstances,' allowing Deutsche Telekom > to prevent competitors from accessing to its new high-speed broadband > network. ..." > > ===== > > The ruling (have only skimmed it) is available at: > http://curia.europa.eu/jurisp/cgi-bin/form.pl?lang=en&alljur=alljur&jurcdj=jurcdj&jurtpi=jurtpi&jurtfp=jurtfp&numaff=&nomusuel=germany&docnodecision=docnodecision&allcommjo=allcommjo&affint=affint&affclose=affclose&alldocrec=alldocrec&docor=docor&docav=docav&docsom=docsom&docinf=docinf&alldocnorec=alldocnorec&docnoor=docnoor&radtypeord=on&newform=newform&docj=docj&docop=docop&docnoj=docnoj&typeord=ALL&domaine=&mots=&resmax=100&Submit=Rechercher > > See also: > http://www.faz.net/s/RubD16E1F55D21144C4AE3F9DDF52B6E1D9/Doc~E7C493B1784EB4AC69A7DEE6B69F6C768~ATpl~Ecommon~Scontent.html > > This last says (my translation): "... The judge declared that Berlin > had constrained the competence of the Bundesnetzagentur as the > responsible regulatory authority in an impermissible way with the law." > > Once again, thanks to Rich for posting this. Crazy that I have to get my > European news from US mailing lists and the Times! ------------------------------------------- Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com ----- End forwarded message -----