French competition authority fined Bouygues Telecom €58 million for mobile-market information sharing and coordination
Company: Bouygues Telecom S.A.
Summary
On 1 December 2005, the French Competition Council fined Bouygues Telecom €58 million after finding that France's three mobile operators exchanged confidential strategic information concerning new subscriptions and cancellations from 1997 to 2003 and agreed to stabilize market shares from 2000 to 2002. The authority characterized the conduct as anticompetitive agreements in the mobile-telephony market. Primary source: https://www.autoritedelaconcurrence.fr/en/communiques-de-presse/1st-december-2005-anticompetitive-agreements-mobile-telephony-market