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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

Getty Images/Shutterstock merger (pending case)
25 June 25 Grégoire Henno

The UK Competition and Markets Authority is consulting until 7 July 2025 on Getty Images’ proposed acquisition of Shutterstock. The merging parties are two of the world’s largest providers of stock photos.

Liberty Media/Dorna Sports merger 2025
24 June 25 Miklós Kozma

Update: The European Commission unconditionally cleared Liberty Media’s acquisition of Dorna Sports. Although the parties hold the commercial rights to two of the most popular motorsports in Europe (Formula One and MotoGP), the Commission’s in-depth merger control investigation showed that the transaction would not harm competition in the market for the licensing of broadcasting rights for sports content.

PPF Group/ProSiebenSat.1 investment Germany 2025
24 June 25 Miklós Kozma

Following an initial phase I merger review, the German competition authority unconditionally cleared PPF Group’s proposed acquisition of shares in ProSiebenSat.1. PPF Group aims to increase its ownership stake in ProSiebenSat.1 to just under 30%.

Latest State Aid & Subsidies intelligence

Deployment of very high-capacity networks in Belgium 2024
06 June 25 Grégoire Henno

The Belgian authorities reported to the European Commission ad hoc state aid measures totalling €68.2m to support the deployment of fixed very high-capacity access networks (VHCN) in so-called white areas where no current or planned network provides a minimum download speed of 100 Mbps.

Deployment of very high capacity networks in Belgium’s Walloon region 2022 and 2024
06 June 25 Grégoire Henno

The Belgian authorities reported to the European Commission several ad hoc state aid measures totalling €54.6m in 2022, 2023 and 2024 to support the deployment of fixed very high-capacity access networks (VHCN) in underserved areas of Belgium’s Walloon region.

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.

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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