The French competition authority (l’Autorité de la concurrence) has said that Canal+ is not honouring the conditions of the acquisition of the premium TV assets of TPS, according to a report in Le Tribune.
According to the newspaper, Canal+ delayed allowing some IPTV providers access to some of the TPS channels and the channels didn’t show as much sport and movies as Canal+ had promised as a condition of the acquisition.
The authority is set to rule in the case in the middle of this year. If Canal+ is indeed found guilty of breaches of the conditions, the authority may impose various sanctions: a fine, new commitments or the extension of existing commitments (which were to expire in 2012 or 2013) or even the removal of green light to the acquisition of TPS.
