On Monday 7 March, the Stockholm District Court ruled that TeliaSonera pay total damages of SEK 65m to Yarps for abusing its dominant position in the wholesale ADSL market in 2002 and 2003.

The abuse consisted of both a relative and an absolute margin-squeeze. Yarps owns the claims by the former market players Spray Networks and Tiscali, which left the market after only a few years.

Copenhagen Economics contributed with a series of expert opinions regarding the anticompetitive effects and the damage calculation. Claus Kastberg Nielsen and Karl Lundvall gave economic expert testimony in court. The decision can be appealed to Svea Hovrätt.

Read more about the decision at the Swedish Court’s website

For further information, please contact Karl Lundvall