30As regards the requirement that the need to foster the development of innovative services and competition be taken into account, this entails that the amount of the charge cannot have the effect of hindering the access of new operators to the market or of reducing the capacity of telecommunications service operators for innovation (see, to that effect, Case C-431/07 P Bouygues and Bouygues Télécom v Commission [2009] ECR I-2665, paragraph 125). It also means that competition must not be distorted, which can be guaranteed only if equality of opportunity is secured as between the various economic operators (see, to that effect, ISIS Multimedia Net and Firma O2, paragraphs 38 and 39).
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