AMCU opens second case against Volia-Cable

The Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine (AMCU) has opened a case against Kyiv-based CSJC Volia-Cable for misuse of monopoly on the Kyiv cable television market.

"We registered that tariffs on services of this Joint-stock company are unjustifiably high," the acting head of the committee, Oleksandr Melnychenko, said at a briefing in Kyiv on Monday.

He said that the final decision on the case would be made in April.

Melnychenko said that the committee submitted draft amendments to the law concerning cable television services provision to the cabinet.

"We should stick to the thing that the subscribers fees for program services [the minimum set of programs, which provision is obligatory for cable television providers] should be regulated by the state. The tariff formation should be legally supported and it should not be based on an expense method," he said.

He also said that after the finishing of the investigation into the justifiability of the cable television services, which is also being conducted in some other regions, an investigation into Internet access services provision could be started.