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Story: Mobile operators angered by latest roaming proposals
Posted by: Anonymous (Friday 16 June 2006, 10:27 AM)
The mobile companies have been reaping bumper profits for many years; operating profit this year was in the region of 30% (£8bn), which most businesses can only dream of. (Unfortunately, they were ripped off when buying Mannesmann and corrected the asset value this year.) While companies operated within their domestic markets, they could maintain the impression that the high roaming charges were due to the foreign operators. Now the operators are multinational, why haven't the costs come down? Well, domestic calls are competitive and margins low, so they rely on international calls to deliver high margins. Will the mobile operators hold their hands up and bow to EC pressure? No way! As you would expect them to, they will fight every step of the way but that is no reason to give up the fight
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