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competition

Competition in the communications sector is complex and fast-changing. This presents both risks and opportunities to providers, as well as challenges for public authorities.

Our competition intelligence services help organisations understand the changing face of competition. We help them grasp the commercial and policy implications of new developments, and make decisions with efficiency and confidence.

Offered on a subscription basis, the service includes alerts, reports, and a database of case summaries written in English. You can also contact our competition law experts at any time for answers to specific questions.

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antitrust & mergers

Our Antitrust & Mergers service makes it simple to follow key trends in competition law and its enforcement. Covering the telecoms, media and postal sectors, as well as the digital economy, our intelligence helps leaders:

    • Stay informed on developments in abuse of dominance cases, covering infringements such as excessive pricing, predatory pricing, margin squeeze, self-preferencing, and tying and bundling.
    • Access data on the actions taken across the EU to address potentially anti-competitive agreements, such as network co-investment and sharing, and online sales restrictions in distribution agreements.
    • Track merger control cases to understand the wider implications of market consolidation for competition in Europe.

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state aid & subsidies

Our State Aid & Subsidies service offers intelligence on EU rules designed to ensure that public support measures in telecoms and the digital economy do not unduly distort competition and private investment. The principal focus of the service lies in the application of state aid rules to subsidised broadband deployment and take-up measures.

Subscribe to our State Aid & Subsidies intelligence service to:

    • understand the allowances and limits of public funding for broadband under EU state aid rules
    • follow the enforcement of these rules in relation tother developments, such as unfair advantages in spectrum auctions and big tech taxation
    • gain insights into key EU funding initiatives in telecoms and the digital economy, such as the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) and the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF)
    • understand the implications of the EU Foreign Subsidies Regulation (FSR)

     

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Latest Antitrust & Mergers intelligence

Amazon alleged price control abuse in Germany (pending case)
19 June 25 Miklós Kozma

Update: The German competition authority sent a statement of objections to Amazon, setting out its preliminary view that the e-commerce company is violating German and EU antitrust rules by interfering in the prices of third-party sellers on its online marketplace.

Delivery Hero, Glovo cartel in online food delivery 2025
03 June 25 Miklós Kozma

Update: The European Commission fined online food delivery companies Delivery Hero and Glovo a total of €329m for participating in a cartel between July 2018 and July 2022. Facilitated by Delivery Hero's minority shareholding in Glovo, the two companies engaged in various anticompetitive practices, including a no-poach agreement, exchanges of commercially sensitive information and the allocation of geographic markets.

Lyft/FREENOW merger 2025
03 June 25 Grégoire Henno

Update: The Polish competition authority unconditionally cleared Lyft’s proposed €175m acquisition of FREENOW. Both companies are mobility-as-a-service providers, but Lyft does not currently operate in Poland.

Latest State Aid & Subsidies intelligence

Explainer: Horizon Europe research and innovation programme
06 June 25 Janne Kalliala

Horizon Europe is the EU’s €95.6bn key funding programme for research and innovation for the period 2021 to 2027. Among other areas, it provides funding for projects in fields such as artificial intelligence, big data, advanced computing and quantum technologies.

Amazon selective tax advantage in Luxembourg 2017 (annulled)
31 May 25 Miklós Kozma

Update: The European Commission formally closed its investigation into an alleged selective tax advantage granted by Luxembourg to Amazon between 2006 and 2014. The Commission’s 2017 decision ordering the recovery of €250m in allegedly illegal state aid was annulled on appeal by EU courts.

Tracking EU broadband state aid spending: latest figures
01 May 25 Janne Kalliala

According to the latest European Commission data, EU member states spent €5.26bn on broadband state aid in 2023, representing a 69% increase on 2022.

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For more information about our Competition services, please contact:

Janne Kalliala phone: +39 348 69 18 879 janne.kalliala@cullen-international.com