Examples of using Margin squeeze in English and their translations into German
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Refusal to supply and margin squeeze.
Margin squeeze in a regulated sector.
Refusal to supply and margin squeeze.
Margin squeezes applied by market-dominating companies are one of the main obstacles to competition for NGA based retail services.
Complaint that the discontinuance charge for wholesale access was included in the margin squeeze calculation.
A margin squeeze is deemed to exist because of an insufficient spread between DT's tariffs for retail subscriptions and wholesale local loop access.
Thus, the Commission reached the following conclusions concerning the margin squeeze calculation in Table 12 of the contested decision.
Three representatives from regulatory authorities and one alternative operator were presenting their approach to andexperience with margin squeeze testing.
In the present case,regulation did not preclude Telefónica from taking the initiative to avoid the margin squeeze by decreasing its wholesale prices or increasing its retail prices.
The traditional tools of price control and obligations to supply are now complemented with newtools such as‘equivalence' of wholesale products or margin squeeze tests.
Under theinitial price cap systembetween 1998 and 2001, DT could have avoided the margin squeeze by restructuringits tariff system at retail level.
DB will provide the Commission with the necessary data to assess if the pricelevels charged by DB under the new pricing system would lead to a margin squeeze.
The Commission cannot consider that discretion in isolation, since the margin squeeze was not calculated on the basis of the T-DSL(ADSL) charges alone, but on the basis of all the retail prices.
This consultation relates to the following documents: A spreadsheet in Excel format,developed to detect any margin squeezes practiced by SMP operators.
In margin squeeze cases the benchmark which the Commission will generally rely on to determine the costs of an equally efficient competitor are the LRAIC of the downstream division of the integrated dominant undertaking55.
The applicant observes that RegTP itselfhas concluded on several occasions since 1998 that there is no margin squeeze to the detriment of the applicant's competitors.
Margin squeezes(also called"price squeezes") may occur if a vertically integrated operator sets a margin between the price of its wholesale services and the price of its retail services that is insufficient to cover the costs specific to the retail market.
The morning ended with Dr. ThomasPlückebaum discussing the appropriate tools for measuring margin squeezes and reviewing some practical examples.
Finally, instead of refusing to supply, a dominant undertaking may charge a price for the product on the upstream market which, compared to the price it charges on the downstream market54, does not allow even an as efficient competitor to trade profitably in thedownstream market on a lasting basis a so-called"margin squeeze.
Iii Absence of an abuse because theapplicant had insufficient scope to avoid a margin squeeze by increasing its retail prices in the period from 1 January 1998 to 31 December 2001.
Furthermore, in the same period, RegTP concluded in its decisions of 8 February 1999, 23 December 1999, 30 March 2001, 21 December 2001,11 April 2002 and 29 April 2003 that no margin squeeze existed to the detriment of competitors.
This consultation will deal with a spreadsheet in Excelformat, developed to detect any margin squeezes practiced by the operators with a significant market power, regarding retail services for large business users.
Deutsche Telekom also received an additional fine of€ 31 070 000 to ensure sufficient deterrence as well as to sanction its repeated abusive behaviour(recidivism)as it had already been fined in 2003 for a margin squeeze in broadband markets in Germany see IP/03/717.
In these meetings, particular types of abuse were discussed- predation,refusal to deal and margin squeeze, rebates, tying, excessive pricing and discrimination- with the help of some cases presented by the NCAs.
It follows that the applicant did not use the discretion available to it in order to secure an increase in its retail prices,which would have helped to reduce the margin squeeze in the period from 1 January 1998 to 31 December 2001.
In considering in its decision of 29 April2003 whether the applicant's charges were leading to a margin squeeze that would distort competition, RegTP also regarded as decisive the fact that the applicant's competitors are in a position to obtain additional revenue from call services.
It follows from all the foregoing that the Commission was entitled to find in the contested decision that the applicant had sufficientscope from 1 January 2002 to reduce the margin squeeze identified in that decision by increasing its charges for ADSL access services.
In the third place, it is necessary to consider whether the applicant used the discretion which it had in relation to its retail prices in order toavoid the margin squeeze identified in the contested decision in the period from 1 January 1998 to 31 December 2001.
The Commission had concerns that Deutsche Bahn's pricing for traction current would not have allowed equally efficient competing players to operate profitably in the German markets for rail freight andlong-distance passenger transport(a so-called"margin squeeze"), in violation of Article 102 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union TFEU.