Telefonica Purchase: New Application Accepted

With the admission of a new procedure for the authorization of economic concentration, presented by América Movil and Telefonica de El Salvador, begins "the technical, economic and legal analysis that will determine whether or not the transaction will cause a significant limitation of competition."

Thursday, November 7, 2019

Both companies submitted this third application for authorization on 19 September this year. From that date, the Superintendence of Competition began a new evaluation to assess the admissibility of the application or the need for the two applicants to complete the information in the file, according to official information.

From the Superintendence of Competition statement:

The admission marks the beginning of the analysis of the effects that the transaction would have on the telecommunications markets in El Salvador, with which the Superintendence must determine whether it will cause a significant limitation of competition.

Wednesday, November 6, 2019. The SC admitted for processing the request for authorization of economic concentration presented by América Móvil and Telefónica de El Salvador, initiating the technical, economic and legal analysis that will determine if the transaction will provoke or not a significant limitation of competition, in the terms of art. 34 of the Competition Law (LC).

Both companies submitted this third request for authorization on September 19 of this year. As of that date, the SC began a new evaluation to assess the admissibility of the application or the need to complete the information in the file by the two applicants, as established by the LC (articles 31 to 36) and its Regulations, RLC (articles 18 to 32), and the Law of Administrative Procedures (LPA).

Read full statement (In Spanish).

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