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Deutsche Telekom Heads for Clash with EU

John Blau writes on InfoWorld:

With the support of German lawmakers, incumbent telecommunications operator Deutsche Telekom is racing into a head-on clash with the European Commission over a decision to keep rival operators off its new high-speed broadband network.

The upper house of the German parliament approved a revised telecommunications law on Friday. The law will allow partially state-owned Deutsche Telekom to ban competitors from using its VDSL (Very high bit-rate Digital Subscriber Line) network to sell services.

The decision flies in the face of Commission legislation that mandates member states to force telecommunications companies with dominant positions -- in most cases former state-owned monopolies -- into opening their network infrastructure to rival operators on favorable terms.

posted by Fergie @ 12/18/2006 11:00:00 AM