The three major Dutch telco’s, T-Mobile, KPN and Vodafone, each miljoenenboetes imposed for cartels. They would be in a 2001 consultation on prices have had. KPN will receive the highest penalty: almost 8 million euros.
With the decision confirms the marktwaakhond NMa that the companies were guilty of concurrentiebelemmering. The telco’s were appealing against earlier decisions of the NMa, but the board of Appeal for the Business was agreed with the NMa. However, the severity of the violations put in context.
The companies would have discussed about the prices that dealers were calculated. According to the European Court, that the College was consulted, may be regarded as concurrentiebelemmering.
According to the NMa were the providers does not demonstrate that the consultation on the prices that they have had without consequences remained. The fines amounts to 7.9 million euros for KPN, 4.6 million euro for the T-Mobile and 3.7 million for Vodafone. The fines are lower because the case is so long’re dragged along the bottom; the offences took place in 2001.