Telecoms regulators have increasingly signaled concerns about the incentives and ability of vertically integrated incumbents to engage in discriminatory behavior against competitors in downstream markets. The UK Office of Communications (Ofcom) has recently accepted undertakings from British...

Telecoms regulators have increasingly signaled concerns about the incentives and ability of vertically integrated incumbents to engage in discriminatory behavior against competitors in downstream markets. This concern is particularly strong in fixed telecoms where incumbents have substantial...

This article examines the European Commission's decision on Intel's conditional rebates. The author took part in a mock jury exercise taking the side of the European Commission and this articles explains why the latter was right in concluding that Intel's conditional rebates were an abuse of...

The UK Government has proposed national roaming to ensure that consumers may use rival mobile networks in areas where their own operator does not offer (network) coverage (these are known as “partial not-spots”). The proposed policy aimed at increasing the likelihood of mobile subscribers...

The McGill's/AWS merger was cleared by the UK Competition Commission mainly on the basis of its belief that the threat of entry would be sufficient to prevent unilateral effects from arising post-merger. This is very close to argue that these local bus markets were contestable. This ex post...

Ofcom identified significant competition concerns in the UK pay TV market and proposed regulatory remedies to address them. For about ten years it tried to get these measure implemented. However, its proposed measures have been repeatedly rejected by appeal bodies and courts. This article...

In price-based (exclusionary) abuse of dominance cases, price-cost tests tend to be the main, if not only, piece of evidence relied upon to conclude whether or not an infringement has taken place. While we consider that this assigns too much weight and relevance to this element of the analysis,...

Net Neutrality has become the focus of attention in the regulatory debate on the Internet. This article attempts to strip down the debate to its bare essential. It identifies two main types of Net Neutrality obligations that have been put forward and assesses what type of potential concerns they...

This article proposes a simple hedonic price test to assess whether firms may have pricing power in the provision of differentiated services. The test allows to compare prices of providers of differentiated products on a like-for-like basis. Testing for pricing power could be a useful complement...

In price-based (exclusionary) abuse of dominance cases, price-cost tests often tend to be the main, if not only, piece of evidence relied upon to conclude whether or not an infringement has taken place. While we consider that this assigns too much weight and relevance to this element of the...