telecoms group Orange is covered by two separate complaints from new operators SFR and Bouygues Telecom, which accuse him of anti-competitive practices with local authorities for a and businesses to another.
The filing of these complaints before the Commercial Court of Paris, announced on the websites of BFM Business Expansion and was confirmed to AFP by Orange, which does not, however, wish to comment.
Also interviewed or SFR or Bouygues have to comment.
According to BFM Business, accuses Orange SFR s arrange for its competitors can not respond in a fair tendering communities on DSL coverage in rural areas. He claims 50 million euros in damages.
“SFR believes that these calls are stacked in favor of Orange,” the site of the Broadcasting economic information, as c ‘ is Orange, former France Telecom, which built the telephone copper network that supports ADSL. So he knows precisely the characteristics, but agrees to provide such information to its competitors “against remuneration and taking some time.” A case is currently pending before the Authority competition for these practices, explains BFM Business.Bouygues Telecom claims for its share of 400 million euros, according to Expansion, “in compensation for damages for anticompetitive practices in the area of its offerings to companies, “a market still majority-owned by Orange.
Bouygues Telecom will however await the outcome of the investigation by the Competition Authority on the subject after being seized by SFR in 2010.
In addition, Bouygues Telecom, Telecom Oméa (Virgin Mobile …), Outremer Telecom (Only), and Euro-Information Telecom (NRJ Mobile, Mobile … CIC) also filed complaints in recent months against Orange for anti-competitive practices in the market of mobile phones between 2005 and 2008, already sanctioned by the Competition Authority.
In this case, the four plaintiffs are seeking 790 million euros damages in Orange, L’Expansion.
(With AFP)
