www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Telefonica has been fined of EUR 11 million by Spanish telecommunications regulator CMT for delaying the provision of naked ADSL wholesale services. The regulations for naked DSL wholesale access were set by the regulator in March 2008. The decision has come after a series of complaints from Vodafone.

Telefonica was granted a period of 4 months from that date to start offering the service to alternative operators. Spanish operator delayed the implementation of the bitstream access service provision by one year. After several investigations, CMT found that Telefonica is “directly responsible for committing a very serious infringement” of the provisions. Accordingly, the ability of alternative operators to compete on a market dominated by Telefonica became limited.

Meanwhile, Telefonica has planned to appeal the CMT ruling.