EU confirms investigation into telecom standards body
An AFX newswire story appearing on Forbes.com:
The European Commission has confirmed a story in the Financial Times, saying it is investigating the EU's main telecoms standards body to determine if it is favouring particular companies' technology.
The commission fears that the European Telecommunications Standards Institute is setting industry-wide rules that force companies to use technology provided by one company.
In practice, this means that companies operating in the sector that are close to ETSI could be pushing their technologies forward as a standard, giving themselves an unfair leading edge in the market.
Jonathan Todd, spokesman for competition at the commission, said: 'The commission is investigating with a view to ensuring that standards are set in a transparent manner without favouring any one particular company.'
posted by Fergie @ 6/14/2005 07:50:00 AM
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