This paper analyses the role of the European Commission in taking cases of abuse of dominance in the telecommunications sector since its liberalisation in 1998. The argument is that the Commission has played a very active antitrust role, in particular at the beginning of the liberalisation, and...

The regulation of electronic communications has been recently reformed in Europe. One striking feature of the review was to base most of the economic regulation - the so-called Significant Market Power regime - on antitrust principles. In particular, the regulated markets have to be defined...

A new regulatory framework for electronic communications (fixed and mobile telephony, Internet, cable TV…) is due to be applicable in the Member States of the European Union in July 2003. One of the main important aspects of the framework is the regulation of the operators enjoying significant...