PosteMobile’s response to the BEREC public consultation on the draft BEREC Report on oligopoly analysis and regulation

From 10 June to 1 August 2015 BEREC held a public consultation on the draft BEREC Report on oligopoly analysis and regulation. This draft report seeks to provide a better understanding of implications of oligopolies on the application of the regulatory framework, acknowledging that the notion of collective or joint dominance under competition law captures the possibility of an oligopolistic market having multiple operators with SMP and that there is little precedent of findings for ex ante regulation of joint SMP market structures. It also seeks to address the questions in which way the current regulatory framework is effective with respect to the analysis and regulation of oligopolistic market settings, as well as to whether there is a need to change the framework to address any issue not already covered under the existing joint SMP concept. The current document contains the individual contribution of PosteMobile to the BEREC public consultation mentioned above.