Germany’s monopoly commission, with a mandate to report annually on market oppenesss, has criticised the government’s postal reform legislation for opening telecommunications markets too little and too late, Reuter reports from Bonn: the commission complained that campaigning for the general election in October prevented a satisfactory reform bill that would open telecomunications markets for more competition, and urged the the government to start drafting plans for a new reform bill for after the election – Despite economic necessity and all we know about market structures, the introduction of competition in the telephone industry, which has been stressed for years, has been put off until the end of the decade, the commission said.
