Margin squeeze: The EU Court of First Instance upholds that a dominant operator obliged to grant access to the network to their competitors cannot escape this obligation and exerce margin squeeze (Deutsche Telekom)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. In the judgment delivered this morning, 10 April 2008, in Case T-271/03 (Deutsche Telekom) v Commission of the European Communities (1 ), the Court of First Instance (Second Chamber) held that the Commission had failed to fulfil its obligations under the EC Treaty. Telekom AG v. Commission), the Court of First Instance of the European Communities has rejected all the pleas in law put forward by DT. That doing so, the Court of First Instance confirms in all respects the Commission's decision of the 21 May 2003 ordering Deutsche Telekom to pay a fine of EUR 12.6 million. It also endorses the Commission's findings that Deutsche Telekom, while complying with