Tension between the E.U. and U.K. rose to a new level this week as Vice-President of the European Commission in charge of Competition Policy Juaquin Almunia said that E.U. bureaucracy is not at fault for a delay in implementing the Broadband Delivery UK timetable, a new broadband strategy whose framework was approved earlier this month by European officials. The U.K. had proposed the broadband strategy as a massive effort to put faster broadband in more homes across the United Kingdom. Almunia said that the U.K. cannot blame E.U. bureaucrats for a slow implementation of the plan, adding that the European Commission had requested the necessary information from the U.K. to put the plan in place last April, but it wasn’t until last month that the information was supplied. Tensions over the project had risen between the E.U. and the U.K. after the U.K.’s Culture secretary Maria Miller met with regulators earlier this month to question the slow implementation of the project to the “final third” of its outreach. The broadband strategy raised competition concerns due to the fact it allowed for only two telecom firms to bid for contracts.
Full Content: Cable.co.uk
Want more news? Subscribe to CPI’s free daily newsletter for more headlines and updates on antitrust developments around the world.
Featured News
Public Interest Groups Push for Rehearing on FCC Net Neutrality Case
Feb 18, 2025 by
CPI
Australian Regulator Backs Virgin Australia-Qatar Airways Alliance
Feb 18, 2025 by
CPI
EU Scales Back AI Regulations to Compete with US in Global Tech Race
Feb 18, 2025 by
CPI
Democratic Lawmakers Raise Concerns Over Musk’s Task Force and Taxpayer Data Security
Feb 18, 2025 by
CPI
UK’s CMA Provisionally Approves Poultry Feed Merger
Feb 18, 2025 by
CPI
Antitrust Mix by CPI
Antitrust Chronicle® – International Criminal Enforcement
Jan 23, 2025 by
CPI
The Antitrust Division’s Recent Work to Combat International Cartels
Jan 23, 2025 by
Emma Burnham & Benjamin Christenson
Information Sharing: The New Frontier of U.S. Antitrust Enforcement
Jan 23, 2025 by
Brian P. Quinn, Casey Kovarik & Michael Tubach
The Key Role of Guidelines on Exchanges of Information Among Competitors and the Divergent Transatlantic Paths
Jan 23, 2025 by
Rosa Abrantes-Metz & Albert Metz
Leniency, Whistleblowers, and Compliance
Jan 23, 2025 by
Richard Powers, Tara O’Malley & Cory Gordon