GERMANY BROADBAND
June 1st, 2004
BY KEITH NUTHALLGERMANY'S Federal Cartel Office has been asked by the European Commission to examine a planned take over by the country's dominant broadband cable operator KDG of smaller rival ish (CORRECT SPELLING AND CASE). As the owner of Deutsche Telekom's former broadband cable network, KDG runs high-speed Internet services across Germany, except in the Länder of Hesse, Baden-Wurttemberg and North Rhine-Westphalia, where ish is the dominant broadband operator. The cartel office has already voiced concern to the Commission about the deal, warning that it ...
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