The company has filed a new complaint at the Luxembourg court

May 29, 2013 09:07 GMT  ·  By

Cisco is trying to block Microsoft’s Skype acquisition that was already completed in October 2011, claiming that such a deal could infringe competition rules on the Old Continent.

And no, you’re not getting a deja-vu, as Cisco has already tried to block the Skype takeover back in February 2012, only a few months after Microsoft purchased the VoIP platform.

According to a report by Reuters, Cisco has this time joined forces with Italian fixed-line and Internet telephone services provider Messagenet SpA, trying to show the court that the European Commission has actually made several so-called “manifest errors” two years ago when it approved the deal.

Business Insider, on the other hand, writes that this could actually be a way to make sure that Microsoft’s Lync, combined with Skype’s video messaging features, won’t hurt Cisco Telepresence business.

No official comments have been released so far, but I’ve contacted Microsoft for a word on this, so I’ll update the article when and if I get an answer.