On Thursday 28 January, the Court of Justice of the European Union confirmed the European Commission’s decision of March 2017 to impose a fine of €580,000 on the US company Qualcomm for abusing its dominant position on the UMTS baseband chipsets market (Case C-466/19) (see EUROPE 11448/5).
The EU judge rejected the six pleas put forward by Qualcomm to have this decision annulled, as well as the judgment of the General Court of the EU (T-371/17) which upheld the Commission’s decision.
Between February 2009 and December 2011, Qualcomm supplied certain quantities of chipsets to two of its major customers, Huawei and ZTE, at prices below cost, with the goal of ousting Icera, its only competitor in this market during this period.
See the judgment: http://bit.ly/3t6S8zq (Original version in French by Mathieu Bion)