Telecommunications - Cross-selling: The French Competition Authority issues an opinion regarding cross-selling and convergence telecom offers

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. – Concise Aut. opinion No. 10-A-13 of 14 June 2010 on the cross-use of customer bases This opinion is the result of a link between the referral for opinion of 4 July 2008 from the Minister of the Economy and the Authority's self-referral of 14 December 2009 [1]. Like other opinions recently issued on electronic [2]communications, the Authority's recommendations go beyond competition law alone and fall within the scope of regulation. The Authority analyses two types of practices grouped together under the heading of 'cross-selling' whereby operators take advantage of the position held in one market to promote their own products or services in a