The European Commission is taking a closer look at a network-sharing agreement between the two largest Czech mobile telephony operators, O2 CZ/CETIN and T-Mobile CZ. An in-depth investigation, which it opened on Tuesday 25 October, will seek to determine whether the cooperation limits competition and harms innovation, in breach of the EU rules on cartels.
The Commission states that between them, these operators represent around three quarters of the retail mobile telecommunications market...