Dow Jones Newswires reports that incumbent Telecom Argentina (TEO) has appealed the order by an Argentine judge last week to assign a court-appointed monitor to the company for two months to assess whether Spanish company Telefonica’s stake in Telecom Italia (TI), TEO’s largest shareholder, creates a conflict of interest. The court order was issued at the request of Grupo Werthein, the second largest single shareholder. Telefonica’s purchase of a minority stake in TI last year raised concerns about a threat to competition and a conflict of interest in Argentina’s telecom sector and provoked speculation that the anti-trust regulator Comision Nacional de Defensa de la Competencia (CDNC) may take measures.