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Consultation on Guidelines on Collective Dominance Under Section 8 of the Code of Practice for Competition in the Provision of Telecommunication and Media Services 2022

Issued Date: 19/07/2023

4 September 2023

In view of further requests from the industry for more time to submit their views and comments, IMDA has extended the submission deadline for the consultation to 12 noon, 2 October 2023.

7 August 2023

In view of requests from the industry for more time to submit their views and comments, IMDA has extended the submission deadline for the consultation to 12 noon, 14 September 2023.

19 July 2023

IMDA would like to seek views and comments from members of the industry on the proposed advisory guidelines on collective dominance. The guidelines are intended to provide clarity on the treatment of abuse of collective dominance in the telecommunication and media markets.

The broad proposals and the proposed guidelines on collective dominance as subsumed into Telecom and Media Competition Guidelines1 are set out in the Consultation Paper (210.03KB) and Annex (Telecom and Media Competition Guidelines) (449.25KB) for industry’s views and comments.

All submissions must reach IMDA by 12 noon, 17 August 2023. Softcopy of submissions in both Microsoft Word and Adobe PDF format should be provided. Parties submitting comments should include their personal/company particulars as well as the correspondence address, contact number and email addresses on the cover page of their submission. All submissions should be addressed to:

Aileen Chia (Ms)
Director-General (Telecoms & Post)
Deputy Chief Executive (Connectivity Development & Regulation)
Infocomm Media Development Authority
10 Pasir Panjang Road
#03-01 Mapletree Business City
Singapore 117438

Please submit soft copies via email to consultation@imda.gov.sg.

Footnote

Advisory Guidelines Governing Abuse of Dominant Position, Anti-Competitive Preferences/Leveraging, Unfair Methods of Competition and Agreements, etc., Preventing, Restricting or Distorting Competition under Sections 8 and 9 of the Code of Practice for Competition in the Provision of Telecommunication and Media Services 2022

LAST UPDATED: 21 MAY 2024