(Finance) – The antitrust has reduced the fine to Tim For “abuse of dominant position” on the laying of the fiber: he will no longer have to pay the sanction of 116 million euros that had been imposed on it in 2020, but will instead have to pay one of 87 million.
In its 2020 provision, the Antitrusta had found that TIM had put in place an anti-concurrent “pre-ordered anti-aggregation strategy to hinder the development in the competitive sense of investments in ultra-largian band network infrastructures’.
Today’s bulletin recalls that the Council of State has accepted the appeal of Telecom Italia in recent months “at first instance only limited to the committee of the sanction imposed”, setting the parameters for the redetermination of the fine. Based on these parameters, the Antitrust Authority therefore stresses that the administrative pecuniary sanction to be imposed on Telecom Italia “in relation to the abuse of the dominant position in violation of article 102 tfue, is redetermined to the extent of 87,074,953.20 euros” .
“In fact, it can be reasonably concluded that The strategy implemented by TIM, despite having had concrete effects on the markets concerned, did not achieve a degree of intensity such as to prejudice The new entrance is irremediably “, reads the bulletin.” For these reasons it appears fair, in application pursuant to art. 134, paragraph 1, lett. c), cpa, operate a 25% reduction in the amount of the sanction established by the authority “.