Vodafone España has lost its two-year legal bid to prevent rival Telefónica from selling converged packages of fixed and mobile telephony, broadband TV on the grounds that rivals were unable to offer the same services over Telefónica’s network.
Vodafone appealed to the Spanish High Court, the Audencia Nacional, after Competition regulator the CNMC rejected its bid to prevent Telefónica from selling its Movistar Fusión packages of services.
The court rejected Vodafone’s claim that the CNMC’s predecessor, the CMT, had effectively authorised Telefónica’s launch of Movistar Fusión, according to Spanish daily El País.
The court rejected the claim that the CMT had authorised Telefónica to launch Movistar Fusión and said that Telefónica only had an obligation to report new commercial offerings to the regulator without a requirement that it wait for explicit authorisation.
The CMT reserved the right to intervene a posteriori if it believed competition issues were involved. Vodafone had sought to argue that the regulator’s inaction amounted to an effective authorisation of Fusión.
Services continue to grow for Apple as company makes more than US$100 billion in Q1 2021 digitaltveurope.com/2021/01/28/ser… https://t.co/gSEMaf2AUJ
28 January 2021 @ 13:07:12 UTC
Banned #TikTok cuts Indian staff digitaltveurope.com/2021/01/28/ban… https://t.co/6IYe4MY7eE
28 January 2021 @ 12:06:41 UTC
Streaming records for Sweden digitaltveurope.com/2021/01/28/str… https://t.co/5JjjxPC1pn
28 January 2021 @ 11:03:06 UTC
ICYMI: @discoveryplus launches in Italy with TIM digitaltveurope.com/2021/01/27/dis… https://t.co/jnNUnzJtEe
27 January 2021 @ 21:00:01 UTC
.@OmdiaHQ: frequent cinemagoers providing boost for SVOD uptake digitaltveurope.com/2021/01/27/omd… https://t.co/qa8GpFIgAc
27 January 2021 @ 20:00:01 UTC