{"id":858,"date":"2007-07-04T15:17:32","date_gmt":"2007-07-04T13:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/general\/telefonica-is-finally-given-a-gigantic-fine.html"},"modified":"2007-07-04T15:17:32","modified_gmt":"2007-07-04T13:17:32","slug":"telefonica-is-finally-given-a-gigantic-fine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=858","title":{"rendered":"Telefonica is finally given a gigantic fine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I built two companies who competed with Telefonica in the DSL business.\u00a0 Jazztel and Ya.com.\u00a0 In both companies we had a very hard time competing with Telefonica because Telefonica owns media and in general favors whatever government runs Spain so governments ally with the former monopoly and not the consumer.\u00a0 But the European Commission finally listened to us and gave Telef\u00f3nica a 150 million euro fine.\u00a0 Let\u00b4s see what happens though.\u00a0 My fear is that Telefonica will find a way to use its local influence not to pay it.\u00a0 The proof is that this bad news has not had any effect on <a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/charts#chart4:symbol=tef;range=5d;indicator=volume;charttype=line;crosshair=on;logscale=on;source=undefined\">its stock price<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"mainphotoarea\"><\/div><div class=\"theme-buttons\"><div class=\"fb-like\" data-href=\"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=858\" data-send=\"false\" data-layout=\"box_count\" data-width=\"71\" data-show-faces=\"false\" data-font=\"arial\" data-locale=\"en_US\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I built two companies who competed with Telefonica in the DSL business.\u00a0 Jazztel and Ya.com.\u00a0 In both companies we had a very hard time competing with Telefonica because Telefonica owns media and in general favors whatever government runs Spain so governments ally with the former monopoly and not the consumer.\u00a0 But the European Commission finally [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}