Bundeskartellamt

Case summaries abuse control

Summaries of cases falling under the control of abusive practices in 2009 and 2010.

The Bundeskartellamt’s decisions are available at Entscheidungen.

Our ref.	Case	Date	Sector
B7-11/09	Examination of a possible margin squeeze strategy in the provision of wholesale telecommunication services by Deutsche Telekom AG	6 August 2009	Telecommunications
B7-68/09	Examination of a possible infringement of Article 19 ARC, Article 102 TFEU on account of a margin squeeze in IP backbone services provided by the “WIA DSL” product		Telecommunications
B7-170/07	Examination of possible abuse of a dominant position by T-Mobile and Vodafone by charging lower on-net tariffs for mobile voice telephony services	28 December 2009	Telecommunications
B10-16/08 to 56/08	Abuse proceedings from 2008 against gas suppliers (“2008 gas price proceedings”) – examination by the Bundeskartellamt of commitments offered by suppliers and gas price developments		Energy supply (40)
B10-71/08	Market abuse proceedings against Gruppen-Gas- und Elektrizitätswerk Bergstraße AG (GGEW) on account of exclusionary abuse by means of excessive concession fees	3 June 2009	Energy supply (40)