Case C-367/24, Telekom România Mobile Communications: Judgment of the Court (Eighth Chamber) of 10 July 2025 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Înalta Curte de Casaţie şi Justiţie – Romania) – Autoritatea Naţională pentru Administrare şi Reglementare în Comunicaţii v Telekom România Mobile Communications (Reference for a preliminary ruling – Electronic communications – Regulation (EU) 2015/2120 – Measures concerning open internet access – Article 3(3) – Obligation on providers of internet access services to treat traffic equally and without discrimination, restriction or interference – Possibility, for those providers, to implement reasonable traffic management measures – Tariff option entailing a bandwidth limitation in respect of video streaming)
Date: 2025-07-10
Institutions: Court of Justice
Subjects: Internet, equal treatment, mobile communication, regulation of telecommunications, telephone charges, transmission network, video communications








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C/2025/4731


8.9.2025






Judgment of the Court (Eighth Chamber) of 10 July 2025 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Înalta Curte de Casaţie şi Justiţie – Romania) – Autoritatea Naţională pentru Administrare şi Reglementare în Comunicaţii v Telekom România Mobile Communications


(Case C-367/24,
                (1)
Telekom România Mobile Communications)

(Reference for a preliminary ruling - Electronic communications - Regulation (EU) 2015/2120 - Measures concerning open internet access - Article 3(3) - Obligation on providers of internet access services to treat traffic equally and without discrimination, restriction or interference - Possibility, for those providers, to implement reasonable traffic management measures - Tariff option entailing a bandwidth limitation in respect of video streaming)
(C/2025/4731)
Language of the case: Romanian

Referring court

Înalta Curte de Casaţie şi Justiţie

Parties to the main proceedings


Appellant: Autoritatea Naţională pentru Administrare şi Reglementare în Comunicaţii

Respondent: Telekom România Mobile Communications

Operative part of the judgment

Article 3 of Regulation (EU) 2015/2120 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 November 2015 laying down measures concerning open internet access and amending Directive 2002/22/EC on universal service and users’ rights relating to electronic communications networks and services and Regulation (EU) No 531/2012 on roaming on public mobile communications networks within the Union
must be interpreted as precluding an option for unlimited internet access, at no additional cost, offered by a provider of internet access services to its customers, which, when activated, enables those customers to use video-streaming services without the data thus used being set off against the data allowance included in the basic monthly charge, but limits the bandwidth applied to that content, irrespective of the distributors or providers, in comparison with that applied to other categories of traffic, while, where that option is not activated by those customers, all traffic, including video streaming, enjoys the same bandwidth strength, but the amount of data used is set off against the data allowance subscribed to by those customers.


(1)  OJ C, C/2024/5080.


ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2025/4731/oj
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