COMPETITION : SFR COMPLAINT AGAINST ORANGE AND FREE FIZZLES OUT.

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The European Commission has dismissed the complaint by French mobile telecoms operator SFR against its competitors Orange and Free Mobile, confirmed the Directorate-General for Competition, on 12 April. The executive concluded that the reasons submitted failed to demonstrate that Orange and Free Mobile had infringed EU law. "The Commission dismissed the complaint because it concluded that this roaming contract was not an acquisition as defined in acquisition law," explained the spokeswoman for Competiton Commissioner Joaquin Almunia.

SFR alleged that Orange's parent company France Telecom had obtained de facto control over Free Mobile through a roaming partnership that created a barrier to competition through low-priced offers on the mobile telecoms market in France.

Under the roaming contract, whose clauses remain secret, Free Mobile is...

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