Type: Judgment

Authority: European Authorities: Euopean Union' Court of Justice

Date: 06/11/2015

Subject: The Court affirmed that the Universal Service Directive does not lay down a social pricing obligation for mobile communications and mobile Internet subscriptions. By contrast, social tariffs must be offered to certain categories of consumers for fixed telephone and Internet subscriptions

Parties: Base Company e Mobistar

Classification: Freedoms - Art. 15 Freedom to provide services - Solidarity - Art. 38 Consumer protection

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