Deutsche Telecom's BRATTY OFFSPRING earns parent €38m fine The EU's competition chief has slapped a €38m fine on Deutsche Telekom for allowing its bratty offspring Slovak Telekom to bully the Slovak broadband market, charging inflated prices to competitors for network access. Commissioner Joaquin Almunia said Slovak Telecom had abused its dominant position in Slovakia as the only …
Who do those Germans and Slovaks think they are, Americans?
The toothless wonders here in the Colonies are busy fining little guys for failing to file their annual statement that they really have, just like the previous year, trained all of their employees in how to properly handle customer proprietary network information. And they're harassing small carrriers and ISPs to provide detailed information about everything they buy from other carriers, in order to determine if the big carriers are overcharging them without having to ask the big carriers what they're charging. (That would be impolite. It's like requiring everyone who buys groceries to fill out a 14-page survey about their register tapes, rather than just going to the store and looking at their POS records.)
But anticompetitive behavior is otherwise totally acceptable here. The ideologues have determined that antitrust action is unnecessary because the Invisible Hand always wins, and monopolies are always self-defeating, and pass the Mouton, Lowell.
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