Sebastien Soriano

This series of articles highlights the existing debate about the role of competition policy in the digital economy. Each contribution addresses the subject from a different perspective. The first two discuss non-price strategies practiced by monopoly digital platforms and remedies that can be (...)

The present contributions were gathered following up the 10th edition of the “New Frontiers of Antitrust” annual Concurrences review Conference held in Paris on June 14th, 2019, at the French Ministry of Economy and Finance. The discussions revolved around four topics. The members of the first (...)

Interview conducted by Charlotte Tasso-de Panafieu and Olivier Fréget, lawyers, Fréget – Tasso de Panafieu, Paris. For several years now, in addition to or in addition to your role as regulator, you have been alerting public opinion with some strong statements on the dangers of the "platform (...)

Interview conducted by Winston Maxwell, Hogan Lovells, Paris. ARCEP now has the power to unilaterally decide that a VoIP service provider, such as Skype, is an operator within the meaning of the French Electronic Communications Postal Code. Why is this so important? Is it to deal with the (...)

Platform regulation means adapting general laws to the digitalisation of the economy, whether general law concerns consumer protection, contracts between commercial partners, competition or data protection, rather than extending telecom rules which should on the contrary only apply to networks (...)