Chile’s antitrust tribunal fines Telefonica with USD4.4m

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: The ruling of Chile’s antitrust tribunal TDLC has gone in favor of Chilean IP telephony enabler RedVoiss’ and has fined telecom operator Telefonica with USD4.4 million. The company had filed a complaint against Telefonica Chile alleging that it has participated in unfair pricing.

As per the finding, clients are required by Telefonica to contract bundled services. The price for these packaged services is significantly lower if they were to be contracted on their own.

According to RedVoiss CEO Alberto Mordojovich, after two and a half years of hard work with the TDLC… this decision will allow for the sale of naked broadband and he also hoped that the decision will mean a lowering of internet access prices for many Chilean families and companies