ALERT : UNILATERAL PRACTICE - COMPLAINT - REJECT FOR LACK OF COMMUNITY INTEREST - DUE CAUSE (YES)
Services of general economic interest (SGEI) : The CFI confirms the Commission’s reject of the complaint introduced by two alternative telecommunications operators with respect to some historical operator’s priving practices (Vivendi)
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In a judgment rendered on October 16, 2013 in Case T-432/10, the General Court of the European Union dismissed the action brought by Vivendi (SFR) for the annulment of the Commission's decision of July 2, 2010. pursuant to which the latter rejected the complaint lodged by the applicant and by Iliad (Free) concerning France Télécom's pricing practices for certain wholesale telecommunications services.
More specifically, Vivendi and Iliad denounced two types of practices that artificially increased the costs of France Télécom's competitors. On the one hand, structural discrimination in the pricing of wholesale services to the benefit of its retail division,
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