It is usually difficult to practice anti-competitive practices unless the parties involved have significant market power or government backing.

Problems relating to vertical integration and significant market power are dealt with under the regulatory framework.

Significant market power is when prices exceed marginal cost and long run average cost, so the firm makes economic profits.

The first remark to be made regards the arrangements for imposing obligations on operators notified as having significant market power.

We have spent an enormous amount of time on significant market power and deciding how to regulate it, instead of actually thinking about the way forward.

"NSPs generally appear to have significant market power.

In law, a monopoly is a business entity that has significant market power, that is, the power to charge high prices.

However, the fact that an operator has significant market power does not always mean that it is misusing that power.

Where firms have significant market power, this may be extended into other markets by vertical integration and other vertical relationships.

This reflects the view that if the enterprise (as an economic entity) has not acquired a monopoly position, or has significant market power, then no harm is done.

As an operator with significant market power, Eircom is required to provide a number of wholesale products to other operators and to switch calls onto other phone networks.

Instead, the appeals court said, the trade commission first had to prove that the lawyers' group had significant market power before it could find them guilty of illegal price-fixing.

The significant market power historically exercised by Cabcharge in setting its 10 per cent service fee appears to act as a 'marker' for other payments service providers.

BT has been found to have Significant Market Power in some markets following Market Reviews by Ofcom.

To contribute to our knowledge and understanding of the operation of industries where firms have significant market power, with particular reference to the dynamics of competition in such markets.

These services (PSTN, leased lines, etc.) include those provided by the operator with significant market power, as well as those of interconnecting operators.

However, defendants find it difficult to charge patent trolls with misuse because the antitrust violations typically involved require significant market power on the part of the patent holder.

In Denmark a number of established telecommunications companies can be said to have 'significant market power' , if we regard the fixed network and the mobile network as separate markets.

This is a very important phrase, over which we spent many hours of negotiation, in that it applies to organizations which have been notified by national regulatory authorities as having significant market power.

If no individual participant in the market has significant market power, then anti-competitive behavior can take place only through collusion, or the exercise of a group of participants' collective market power.

A LRIC model is often used in telecommunications regulation to determine the price paid by competitors for services provided by an operator with significant market power, usually the incumbent (former monopoly).

The proposal for a directive applies the 'new' significant market power' or 'reduced domination' concept, which, its 'negative' feature of hampering competition having been corrected, leaves the field open to ex ante measures.

As we stressed in Chapter 9, the Rover Group may produce a large share of the motor cars manufactured in the UK but this does not necessarily mean it has significant market power.

Microsoft replies, as Mr. Schmalensee testified, that it does not have "any significant market power over software distribution," noting that Netscape distributed more than 100 million copies of its browser last year.

The proposed merger would "concentrate significant market power" and "substantially lessen competition among U.S. futures exchanges, and raise even higher the barriers to entry for new competitors," the association said in a news release.