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BT FACES the imminent threat of a multimillion-pound fine for alleged anti-competitive behaviour over the pricing of its high-speed internet access.
The former telecoms monopoly is expected to learn within weeks the outcome of a four-year competition investigation by the regulator, Ofcom, and its predecessor, Oftel, into whether the group abused a dominant position in its pricing of its household broadband products.
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The telecoms group, which last year escaped the threat of being broken up, has been told that a decision on the case, which centres on pricing from June 2002, is expected “in the first half of this year”. If found guilty Ofcom can impose “remedies” on BT. It can also issue a fine of up to 10 per cent of “relevant” turn over. BT made total revenues of £19.5 billion last year.
The case is one of several legal issues hanging over BT amid an otherwise successful performance which saw it unveil last month year-on-year underlying earnings growth for the first time in nearly three years.

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