CRA’s Competition experts prepared a report for European Telecommunications Network Operators (ETNO) that recommended a consistent and proportionate approach across Europe to the parameters and procedures of economic replicability tests with the aim of promoting investment in next generation access (NGA) services while safeguarding competition. The report was published in March 2015, coinciding with ETNO’s Let’s get the Fibre Rolling event in Brussels, where Geoff Edwards participated in a panel discussion with Reinald Krueger from the European Commission, Annegret Groebel from BNetzA and BEREC and Jos Huigen from KPN.
The politician and the judge: Implications for competition policy
Drawing on the historical evolution of antitrust policy, the authors argue that some increase in politicisation is likely an inevitable result of the expansion...