Competitive telcos and local carriers urged European Parliament P...
Competitive telcos and local carriers urged European Parliament Pres. Jose Barroso Mon. to “make it clear” to the German govt. that it’s a bad idea to give Deutsche Telekom (DT) a regulatory holiday while the company deploys a new…
Sign up for a free preview to unlock the rest of this article
Timely, relevant coverage of court proceedings and agency rulings involving tariffs, classification, valuation, origin and antidumping and countervailing duties. Each day, Trade Law Daily subscribers receive a daily headline email, in-depth PDF edition and access to all relevant documents via our trade law source document library and website.
VDSL fiber network. With amendments to German telecom law up for vote Nov. 29 in the lower house’s economic affairs committee, the German Competitive Carriers Assn. (VATM) and BREKO said it’s “incomprehensible” why billions of euros their members are investing and plan to invest should get less protection than DT’s. “Since 2000, the competitors in Germany have invested more than 8 billion euros on the fixed line sector alone,” the telcos told Barroso. They asked him to “interfere personally” to ensure DT competitors aren’t excluded from future innovation. The regulatory moratorium is backed by the 2 political parties forming the country’s govt. but strongly opposed by the EC. “Our impression is that the Commission will stick to its guns,” attorney Axel Spies said on VATM’s behalf. If the regulatory holiday for new services is adopted, the EC “will drag Germany to court,” he said.