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FRENCH COMPETITION AUTHORITY – TDF fined for anti-competitive practices:

In a 2009 opinion issued at the request of the French regulator for electronic and postal communications (ARCEP) the French Competition Authority ruled that the broadcasting company TDF had a dominant position in the market of terrestrial broadcasting. TDF was required to publish, by 15 September 2009, its technical standards and prices to give newcomers to the market an overview of TDF’s technical conditions and prices relating to accommodation on and access to its antennas to ensure fairness in the market (Autorité de Régulation des Communications Électroniques et des Postes, 11 June 2009, n° 2009-0484). TDF did not publish this information by the deadline.

On 5 February 2015, the French Competition Authority found that, by delaying publication without just cause, TDF abused its dominant position and distorted the market by creating asymmetry in the information available to participants.