5 okt 2015 12:11

Vestager om Telia/Telenor-fusionen: Den skulle minskat konkurrensen

EU-kommissionen var på väg att förbjuda samgåendet mellan Telia och Telenor på den danska marknaden redan innan bolagen gick ut och meddelade att de avbröt fusionsplanerna. Det sade EU:s konkurrenskommissionär Margrete Vestager i ett tal vid Fordham University i USA i fredags.

”According to our analysis, the merger would have had anti-competitive unilateral effects across the board from retail private and business customers to wholesale customers and co-ordinated effects at least on certain retail customers.
And while the companies claimed that the merger would lead to greater investments, our investigation did not show how these investments would materialise.
And in any event, even if the investments did materialise, we could not see how the benefits for consumers would outweigh the expected price increases induced by the loss of competition”, sade Vestager i sitt tal.

Hon påpekar att de båda operatörerna, trots att de lade fram två bud, saknade fundament för att godkännas.

”The proposal was insufficient in scope and scale. And it lacked crucial precision on fundamental aspects, such as the financial participation by the potential entrant in the shared network. These failings seemed likely to affect the viability, competitiveness and incentives of the new entrant”, sade hon.

Vill du läsa hela Margrete Vestagers tal, där hon i ovanligt öppna ordalag beskriver den misslyckade fusionen och hur den påverkat EU:s fortsatta konkurrensarbete kring telekommarknaden, så kan du göra det här: http://ec.europa.eu/commission/2014-2019/vestager/announcements/competition-telecom-markets_en