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Deutsche Telekom and Pacific Bell v. LinkLine: Does Competition Law have a Place in Regulated Industries?

In: Regulating Technological Innovation

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  • Martin W. Holterman

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In the last two years, both the US Supreme Court and the European Court of Justice have been faced with the problem of what to do when competition law and telecommunications regulations collide. In Deutsche Telekom v. Commission,1 the European Court of Justice (here-after: ECJ) agreed that Deutsche Telekom could be guilty of abusing its dominant position on the market for DSL Internet connections by carrying out a so-called price squeeze, whereby a supplier that competes with its own customers seeks to increase its market share by reducing the retail/wholesale margin, that is, the difference between the price charged to its wholesale customers and the price it charges its own retail customers for the finished product. Interestingly, the appellant’s objection that its pricing system was, in any event, approved by the German telecom authorities was deemed irrelevant.2

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  • Martin W. Holterman, 2011. "Deutsche Telekom and Pacific Bell v. LinkLine: Does Competition Law have a Place in Regulated Industries?," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Michiel A. Heldeweg & Evisa Kica (ed.), Regulating Technological Innovation, chapter 6, pages 115-130, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-36745-6_7
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230367456_7
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