市场“雅尔塔”招致天价重罚 法三大移动运营商操弄市场成被告

Market ″Yalta″ Results in Heavy Penalty Three French Mobile Carriers Become Defendants for Market Manipulation

在1997～2003年的数年间,法国三大移动运营商即Or-ange、SFR和BouyquesTelecom,在一个相对封闭、进入门槛很高的市场上,定期秘密交换商业数据,协调商业策略和市场举措,订立攻守同盟,人为影响销售价格;更为严重是各公司高层直接参与,密传信息,私分市场,即通过所谓“雅尔塔”方式,稳定各自的市场份额,避免互相竞争,对其他运营商和消费者造成损害。为此,法国竞争监管委员会对三家公司做出总共5.34亿欧元的重罚。消费者协会还将动员消费者进行诉讼,意在追讨给消费者造成的据估计高达12亿欧元的损失。

From 1997 to 2003, in the relatively closed market with high entry barrier, three French mobile carriers （i.e. Orange, SFR and Bouyques Teiecom） exchanged the business data regularly and privately, coordinated the business strategies and market behaviors, established offensive-defensive alliance and influenced the selling price subjectively. What＇s more, the senior officers of each com- pany directly participated in the secret information exchange and privately divided the market, i.e. through the so-called ＂Yalta＂ mode to stabihze respective market share, avoid the competition among them and harm the interests of other carriers and customers. Therefore, Competition Supervision Committee of France makes a heavy penahy （534 million European dollars in total） to the three companies. In addition, consumer＇s association will motivate the customers to suit them, for the purpose of getting back their losses （the estimation loss is 1.21 billion European dollars）.