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O2, T-Mobile and Vodafone dodge 'collective dominance' finding as EU vetoes Czech decision

O2, T-Mobile and Vodafone won’t face regulation of the wholesale mobile access market in Czechia after the European Commission today vetoed a draft decision by the country’s telecom regulator.

The Czech Telecommunication Office must withdraw its draft decision to impose wholesale access obligations on the three operators because it failed t

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Matthew Newman

Chief Correspondent


Matthew Newman is a chief correspondent for MLex and writes about data protection, privacy, telecoms, cyber security and artificial intelligence. Matthew began his journalism career in 1991 in community newspapers. He worked as a reporter in Riga, Latvia in 1993 and then moved to Chicago where he covered local news. In 1995, he became a personal finance reporter for Dow Jones Newswires, and was then transferred to Brussels in 1999. He specialized in EU regulatory affairs, including trade and telecom issues. He began covering competition for Bloomberg News as an EU court reporter in 2004. In 2010, he was named spokesman for Viviane Reding, the EU’s justice commissioner. In January 2012, he helped launch the commission’s proposal to overall data protection rules.

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