Competition policy and business strategy

Competition and merger cases in the telecommunications sector have gained in importance with the increasing strength of competition (both service and network competition), the increasing convergence of the telecommunications and broadcasting sectors and the associated tendency towards de-regulation of the sector. The progressive decrease in the importance of ex-ante regulation increasingly requires the application of ex-post controls to the behaviour of companies in the sector.

Frontier has an extensive competition practice with experience in all major areas of competition policy and analysis, including market definition and market power, merger analysis, abuse of market power, horizontal and vertical agreements and state aid. Frontier's telecommunications team has brought together our competition policy expertise with our understanding of telecommunications markets to assist our clients on a variety of assignments.

We have also combined our strength in the application of economics to the telecoms sector with our extensive experience of competition policy to provide strategic advice to telecoms operators in the design of successful corporate strategies. Our experience includes development of market entry strategies, the design of pricing strategies and the development, review and assessment of business plans.