Magenta squeeze: CFI upholds Commission decision against Deutsche Telekom

Posted on April 10, 2008 | Filed Under communication technologies 

No, of course it should read margin squeeze, not magenta squeeze, but maybe Deutsche Telekom should also trademark the term “magenta squeeze”, as it could refer to a practice of Deutsche Telekom that earned it a fine of 12.6 million Euro for abusing its dominant position in local access. Today, the Commission decision of 21 May 2003 (!) was fully upheld by the Court of First Instance (see here for the press release, and here for the decision).

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3 Responses to “Magenta squeeze: CFI upholds Commission decision against Deutsche Telekom”

  1. “But in these cases we still have judgment here”*: pending cases at the ECJ : contentandcarrier on April 28th, 2008 11:23 pm

    […] Magenta squeeze: CFI upholds Commission decision against Deutsche Telekom […]

  2. An update on the pending ECJ- and CFI-cases in telecoms and broadcasting : contentandcarrier on August 3rd, 2008 12:16 am

    […] pricing in broadband-access [I have no doubt that Deutsche Telekom also brings an appeal in its “magenta squeeze” case that it lost at the CFI]; still at the CFI is the margin-squeeze case of Telefonica (T-336/07). And […]

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