{"id":10337,"date":"2009-11-05T12:53:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-05T10:53:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-11-05T12:53:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-05T10:53:00","slug":"swiss-company-fined-for-overcharging-broadband-customers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadband\/10337-swiss-company-fined-for-overcharging-broadband-customers.html","title":{"rendered":"Swiss company fined for overcharging broadband customers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Swisscom, the country&#8217;s dominant telecoms company, set the price for wholesale ADSL connections so high that competitors, who depend on the company&#8217;s network to reach customers, couldn&#8217;t operate profitable broadband businesses, the regulator said.<\/p>\n<p>The company lowered its prices for competitors &#8211; which include Sunrise, VTX and Green &#8211; at the start of 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Swisscom immediately announced it would appeal the fine. The Federal Administrative Tribunal is due to rule on the case shortly, the company said.<\/p>\n<p>Shares in Swisscom were up 0.1 percent at 369.50 francs ($363.03).<\/p>\n<p>The competition commission fined Swisscom&#8217;s cell phone provider Swisscom Mobile 333 million francs in 2007 for overcharging competitors on calls that concluded on its network.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?p=3312572#post3312572\">Swiss telecoms company fined&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Switzerland&#039;s competition commission said Thursday it has fined Swisscom AG almost 220 million Swiss francs ($216 million) for overcharging its wholesale broadband customers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadband"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10337"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}