Margin squeeze: The EU Tribunal scupulously applies the Court’s case law for margin squeeze practices by an historic phone company (Telefónica)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. In a judgment delivered today, 29 March 2012, the Court of First Instance of the European Union has a priori scrupulous application of the case law, which is now gradually being applied The Court's consolidated position on the practice of margin squeeze, or of tariff scissors, resulting from the judgments in the Wanadoo cases Interactive, Deutsche Telekom and most recently in the TeliaSonera case in which the Court provided useful clarifications. In the present case - ironically - the Spanish subsidiary of France Telecom, Wanadoo España, had complained to the Commission of the implementation by the Spanish incumbent operator - Telefónica - of an margin