its endeavour. In this respect, an EU competition policy that focuses on consumer welfare is one way to gain support by … case of telecommunications, several initiatives of the European Commission and of national regulatory authorities to falls … the interests and rights of consumers on the telecommunication market. The enforcement of competition and consumer policy …

full liberalization of telecommunications markets provides scope for relying to a large extent on general antitrust rules … Zealand which fully liberalized its telecommunications markets in the late 1980's and relied primarily on antitrust …

In recent decades the relationship between competition law and regulation has become a very controversial issue, in … particular in respect of the interface between competition rules and sector-specific regulation in liberalized network industries … related to price squeeze, particularly with regard to the concurrent application of competition rules and sector …