Brussels GA&P (November 2014)

The Spanish competition authority (Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y la Competencia or CNMC) has considered thatsuch commitments result in restrictive effects on competition because they disproportionately limit customers’ ability to change operator. Furthermore, the CNMC has also indicated that such practices substantially increase the subscriber acquisition costs of competitors and effectively excluded some of them from the SME segment, including mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs)…