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A hearing was held before the Belgrade Administrative Court in relation to the lawsuit brought by SBB against RATEL’s decision due to, as SBB points out, RATEL’s controversial decision of July 2019, according to which SBB and Telekom Srbija represent operators with significant market power in markets that are not competitive, that is, they are monopolists.
Although they are extremely intense competitors, according to RATEL’s decision, SBB and Telekom are harmonized in the Internet market.
RATEL has imposed a series of obligations on SBB and Telekom regarding the provision of access to other operators to its network.
SBB believes that Telekom controls key infrastructure and is a much stronger operator in the internet market, and that SBB should not even be subject to RATEL regulation. As an argument in favor of that attitude, SBB claims that they have less customer coverage, but add that RATEL ignored the large acquisitions that Telekom had in the previous period.
Although the trial was public, the journalists were unable to attend the hearing.
“Telekom Srbija has been regulated before to provide access to the network of copper cables, these are copper cables for telephone lines, on the basis of which Internet was provided for the first time. When RATEL made the decision, it also regulated SBB , stating that SBB is an operator with For each of us, as a user, it is clear that such construction is unsustainable, we know that Telekom Srbija as the state operator and SBB as the largest private operator are very intense and fierce competitors. rather, it launched the regulation of the entire SuperNove network that Telekom bought and all the optics that Telekom has been building together with Huawei throughout Serbia in recent years, which means that Telekom has committed to offering services only through the oldest network since the one that is executed as quickly as possible. SBB has regulated the entire active and current network. We believe this solution is unsustainable and we hope that the court will agree with us, “d I put the lawyer at N1. SBB Veljko Smiljanic.
SBB’s lawyer stated that RATEL made an illegal decision and decided to ignore the optical infrastructure that Telekom Srbija is building and establish Telekom’s control over the network that does not allow access to other operators. Furthermore, RATEL is simultaneously trying to regulate SBB, which is a smaller operator in the market and essentially the only one representing such competition, the lawyer said.
“The court had an oral hearing today, we presented arguments, RATEL did not appear and we expect the court to annul RATEL’s decisions within a maximum period of 30 days and allow fair competition between state and private operators,” Smiljanic said.
SBB is part of the Uniteg Group, within which N1 also operates.
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