Tag: Telecom
Jordan Urges Telecoms To End Prepaid Plans
Jordan's Ministry of Industry, Trade and Supply has called on telecom companies to reverse a recent decision disconnecting prepaid phone plans the day following...
Spanish Regulator Extends Pay TV Restrictions On Telefónica
Spanish markets regulator the CNMC has extended restrictions placed on Telefónica related to its acquisition of pay TV operation DTS in 2015 by a...
Israel’s Regulator Told To Block Bezeq and HOT’s Merger
Israel’s government has advised the country’s regulator to block Bezeq Israel Telecom’s proposal to combine its fixed infrastructure unit with its mobile, internet, and...
Orange Ordered To Pay Rival Digicel In Antitrust Case
French telecoms operator Orange has been ordered by a Paris court to pay local rival Digicel nearly €250 million (US$280 million) in compensation for...
India’s Regulator Conducts Studies On Telecom M&A
The Competition Commission of India (CCI) is conducting studies on the country's telecom sector as well as merger and acquisition in the digital market,...
Israel Gives Green Light To Cellcom-Golan Telecom Merger
Israel’s Ministry of Finance has given the green light to the merger between Cellcom Israel and Golan Telecom. Cellcom's share price is up by...
The More Economic Judicature: How the General Court has Recalibrated the...
By Dr. Tilman Kuhn, & Prof. Dr. Stefan Thomas (White & Case LLP & Eberhard Karls University)1
Introduction
In its first ever judgment dealing specifically with...
Report Claims South Korea’s Telecom Market Lacks Competition
South Korea's telecommunications market dominated by three major firms lacks competition and needs to improve its structure to provide better services to consumers, a...
Brazil: Oi considers selling mobile unit to Telecom Italia
Brazilian telecommunications firm Oi SA is in talks with Spain’s Telefonica SA and Italy’s Telecom Italia SpA to sell its mobile network to avoid...
Israel: Bezeq Telecom fined
Bezeq, Israel’s largest telecoms group, has been fined 30 million shekels (US$8.6 million) for what the competition regulator stated was an “abuse of the...
