Mobile Phones: Price Fixing

(asked on 26th June 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether his Department has received reports of alleged price fixing and collusion among mobile phone operators; and whether he plans to ask the relevant authorities to investigate the alleged competition offences that have taken place.


Answered by
Margot James Portrait
Margot James
This question was answered on 1st July 2019

The Department is aware of reports of alleged price fixing and collusion among mobile phone operators and understand that this matter is subject to ongoing court proceedings.

Investigations of alleged anti-competitive practices are for the relevant competition authorities acting independently of Government.

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