{"id":1042945,"date":"2026-10-14T07:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T02:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1042945"},"modified":"2026-10-14T08:02:04","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T02:32:04","slug":"swisscom-wins-appeal-in-fibre-optic-case-21-6-million-fine-overturned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/14\/swisscom-wins-appeal-in-fibre-optic-case-21-6-million-fine-overturned\/","title":{"rendered":"Swisscom wins appeal in fibre-optic case, $21.6 million fine overturned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Swisscom said on Tuesday a court upheld its appeal against the Swiss competition watchdog&#8217;s 2023 ruling that the telecom firm abused its market dominance in a fibre-optic case, overturning a fine of 18 million Swiss franc ($21.6 million). <\/p>\n<p>The case relates to a probe opened by the Swiss Competition Commission in late 2020 into Swisscom&#8217;s fibre-optic expansion on grounds it could exclude competitors and lead to the abuse of its leading market position.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swisscom said on Tuesday a court upheld its appeal against the Swiss competition watchdog&#8217;s 2023 ruling that the telecom firm abused its market dominance in a fibre-optic case, overturning a fine of 18 million Swiss franc ($21.6 million). The case relates to a probe opened by the Swiss Competition Commission in late 2020 into Swisscom&#8217;s fibre-optic expansion on grounds it could exclude competitors and lead to the abuse of its leading market position.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1042945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1042945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1042946,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042945\/revisions\/1042946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1042945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1042945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1042945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}