Italy antitrust fines telecom groups over billing practices

MILAN (Reuters) - Italy's antitrust authority said on Friday it had fined Italy's top four phone operators a total of 228 million euros (192 million pounds) for breaching competition rules by collectively agreeing to raise their prices. The watchdog opened a probe against Telecom Italia , Vodafone , CK Hutchison's unit Wind Tre and Swisscom's Fastweb in 2018, claiming the carriers had agreed to raise tariffs after they had been forced to scrap a billing scheme based on 28 days rather than a..