Competition concerns on the Czech telecommunications market

To address the Commission’s competition concerns, the competitors offered (i) to modernise the mobile network, (ii) to set and review the financial conditions for unilateral network deployments, (iii) to improve the NSAs contractual provisions to limit information exchange and (iv) impalement measures to the MNSA to prevent information spill-over between the companies.

The Commission invited all interested parties to submit their views on the proposed commitments until 1 November 2021 and now it will take a final view as to whether the commitments sufficiently address competition concerns. If this is the case, the Commission may adopt a decision making the proposed commitments legally binding on the parties. The Commission will not conclude if there is an infringement of EU antitrust rules. However, parties' compliance with the commitments will be monitored by an independent trustee appointed by the Commission. If any company breaks the commitments, the Commission can impose a fine of up to 10% of the company's worldwide turnover, without having to prove an infringement of the EU antitrust rules. The official communication from the Commission is available here and the full version of commitments here.

For more information contact Vojtěch Chloupek and Jiří Švejda.