Om samordnade förfaranden och vertikala begränsningar mellan elektroniska kommunikationstjänster och informationssamhällets leverantörer vid avtal om avgiftsfri datatrafik

Sammanfattning: This thesis investigates vertical restraints between actors in the communication sector and clarifies to what extent the normal, ex post competition law framework could be applied to remedy such vertical restraints as can arise following vertical agreements between providers of electronic communication networks or services and providers of information society services. As the number of such agreements that could potentially arise is very large, the investigation is limited to two particular (presumtive) vertical agreements which have been discussed in Sweden in later years, and which, in their capacity of being such presumtive agreement, have caused political controversies, namely with respect to the need for ex ante legislation. The agreements in question are the TeliaSonera end-consumer offer of zero-rated data traffic (data traffic for which the consumer is not charged per unit of data) for some web-services in the social network markets, and the Hi3G offer of zero-rated data traffic for music streaming services.