Collective dominance, market analysis and the 2002 EU framework directive: The case of mobile access and call origination in Ireland

Abstract

One of the first attempts to designate licensed telecommumications operators as having Significant Market Power (SMP) as a result of joint dominance under the 2002 EU electronic communications regulatory framework occurred in Ireland. The market involved was wholesale access and call origination on public mobile telephony networks, or market 15 in the European Commission's Recommendation (European Commission, 2003). The Irish National Regulatory Authority (NRA) the Commission for Communications Regulation (ComReg) sought to designate O2 and Vodafone as jointly dominant in what it termed the wholesale MACO (Mobile Access and Call Origination) market. © 2007 Springer Berlin · Heidelberg.