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BT may face £2bn bill for broadband delays
News EC Competition Commissioner Mario Monti said last week that he is investigating the process of local-loop unbundling (LLU) across the European Union. According to Pickering, the involvement of Mario Monti is an indication that the EC is taking...
[September 19, 2001, 14:55]
EC to clamp down on mobile roaming charges
News EU Competition Commissioner Mario Monti said on Tuesday that he is concerned the international roaming charges levied by mobile operators are a rip off. We have narrowed down our investigations to a number of Member States where the situation is...
[February 28, 2002, 11:02]
EC ruling 'will speed up future actions'
News Speaking at a packed press conference in Brussels to announce the EC's ruling, competition commissioner Mario Monti said that during the course of the investigation it became clear that formal procedures were needed for such cases.
[March 24, 2004, 12:50]
Monti to Microsoft: Guilty as charged
News Today, Mario Monti, the European Competition Commissioner, issued his ruling in the long-running case against Microsoft, fining the American software giant $613.4m (€497m), the heaviest punishment in any European competition case to date.
[March 24, 2004, 10:25]
Microsoft awaits punitive EU judgment
News Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer had flown in earlier this week for talks with EU Competition Commissioner Mario Monti. But those talks collapsed on Thursday, and Monti said in a statement that the two sides had failed to agree on...
[March 19, 2004, 7:40]
US casts doubt on EU's Microsoft decision
News US politicians gave at least six speeches during a three-day period last week on the floor of the Senate and House of Representatives, all of which condemned European Competition Commissioner Mario Monti's ruling that Microsoft violated antitrust...
[March 31, 2004, 8:45]
EC ruling 'will speed up future actions'
Talkback Mario Monti keep your face out of our business you COMMUNIST! You really think your a player in the IT industry, well I have one thing to say to you: "STAY OUT OF THE IT BUSINESS!
[March 24, 2004, 14:30]
There's something about Mario
News When European regulators derailed the General Electric-Honeywell merger three years ago, American investment bankers joked that they'd found a new bogeyman: Mario Monti, the region's top antitrust enforcer.
[March 24, 2004, 14:30]
Mobile phone firms hit by dawn raids
News The European Union has raided all nine British and German mobile phone companies as part of the Union-wide investigation into price fixing, according to Competition Commissioner Mario Monti in Brussels.
[July 11, 2001, 16:21]
EC sets Microsoft antitrust date
News At a European parliamentary hearing yesterday, competition commissioner Mario Monti said a deal between the two sides is still possible and no firm decision is as yet in place. While the bargaining goes on, Monti has said that a date for a final...
[February 24, 2004, 13:10]
Fibre optic to dominate EU broadband market by 2010
News Anti-trust chief Mario Monti accused some of Europe's biggest telco's of deliberately obstructing local-loop unbundling -- a process seen as crucial if consumers are to be offered cheap and competitive broadband services in the near future.
[October 11, 2001, 12:40]
Microsoft's next trial to be in Europe
News That seems unlikely, given a May speech in Berlin by European Competition Commissioner Mario Monti. This could be seen as an attempt to leverage its dominant position into related markets," Monti said.
[July 2, 2001, 15:39]
MS faces tougher battle in Europe
News European Competition Commissioner Mario Monti on Tuesday said the investigations there were not linked to the U.S.case, Reuters reported. Nevertheless, there are of course certain common features with regard to the industry that is being considered...
[July 4, 2001, 10:36]
Monti's verdict on Microsoft - blow by blow
News Issuing the verdict, the EU competition commissioner, Mario Monti, said Microsoft broke EU competition law by "leveraging its near monopoly in the market for PC operating systems onto the markets for work group server operating systems and for...
[March 24, 2004, 11:30]
EC to drop Intel antitrust investigation
News According to the Financial Times, the competition commissioner Mario Monti said that the decision was one of a number of measures agreed at a weekend meeting with Charles James, head of the US Justice Department's antitrust division.
[February 4, 2002, 14:12]
How the EC's ruling will affect Longhorn
News The decision, handed down by European Competition Commissioner Mario Monti on Wednesday, requires Microsoft to offer two versions of its Windows operating system: one with Media Player, the company's audio and video software; and one without it.
[March 24, 2004, 13:15]
Microsoft's Sun deal 'will not affect EU appeal'
News Last month Mario Monti, the European competition commissioner, ruled that Microsoft had stifled competition by failing to provide information to rivals needed to compete fairly in the market for server software, and by bundling its media player...
[April 5, 2004, 17:20]
Microsoft's legal problems not over yet
News In March 2004, then-European Competition Commissioner Mario Monti levied a €497m (£342m) fine after ruling that the company had unfairly wielded its market power against rivals. Microsoft's settlement with RealNetworks on Tuesday eliminates one...
[October 12, 2005, 9:35]
Microsoft wants to give rivals' software away
News I can't see Mario Monti doing cartwheels about this. With a preliminary decision made and a full report on the way, Microsoft is looking to settle its seemingly interminable antitrust dispute with the European Commission -- but its latest move to...
[February 17, 2004, 13:45]
Microsoft prepares EU appeal
News Of course, I'm confident we have produced a decision that will stand before any appeal," European Competition Commissioner Mario Monti said at a March press conference. Microsoft plans to file next week its formal appeal of a European Union ruling...
[June 3, 2004, 9:15]
