Work Area: Market Studies & Inquiries

Motorola has accused the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority of relying on a flawed and “made-up” profitability analysis methodology to justify imposing a price cap on how much the company can charge emergency services to use its Airwave network.

02 August 2023

Google, Apple, Booking.Com and Takealot are among companies facing a “raft of remedial action” following a market study in South Africa that echoes recent European antitrust developments.

01 August 2023

The UK government should tighten its unit pricing rules to better help shoppers compare product prices, the country’s national antitrust enforcer has said in an update on its probe into competition in the groceries sector.

20 July 2023

Apple and Amazon’s data advantages in the consumer credit and insurance sectors have been flagged as ripe for scrutiny by the UK’s financial services watchdog.

13 July 2023

Australia’s antitrust watchdog has begun scrutinising data broker services as part of a market study probing potential concerns about barriers to entry and spillover competition effects in other sectors.

10 July 2023

A former head of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has recommended a host of reforms to the country’s antitrust regime that would empower the enforcer to forcibly break up companies found to have abused their market power.

10 July 2023

The Norwegian Competition Authority has praised a government proposal to allow the agency to impose behavioural or structural remedies following a market study, but local competition lawyers have said the amendments are "intrusive" and require further consultation.

03 July 2023

The UK government has promised to force retailers to publish accessible and up-to-date fuel pricing information after a market study by the national antitrust watchdog warned that weak competition has led to higher costs for drivers.

03 July 2023

Enforcement action may be necessary against the likes of Amazon, Microsoft and Google to address concerns that customers are being locked into their rapidly-growing cloud ecosystems, France’s Competition Authority has said after studying the market.

30 June 2023

Featured in Europe, Middle East and Africa Antitrust Review 2024

Targeted legislative changes and a focus on partnerships with regulatory authorities are shaping Greece’s antitrust regime, influencing its protections against anticompetitive behaviour, abuse of dominance and improper mergers.

30 June 2023