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Ofcom to consider customer termination charges
Blog Mobile operators already charge each other termination charges -- now Ofcom has called for opinions as to whether end users should be charged. Call me skeptical, but surely carrier termination charges are already passed on to customers?
[August 29, 2008, 17:28]
Ofcom to consider customer termination charges
Blog Comment It won't just make it more overt, it will mean people having huge bills run up when the spammers get to work, or the jokers that decide they don't like someone and get all their friends to call the victim.at which point my phone goes in the bin.
[August 31, 2008, 11:39]
Mobile phone price cuts branded 'inadequate'
News It is expected to force the four mobile network operators to cut these prices -- known as termination charges -- by 20 percent. Objections from mobile companies to the idea of a 20 percent cut in termination charges are not like to be too strong.
[August 20, 2001, 11:43]
Operators pressured to cut mobile-termination fees
News Mobile-termination rates are the charges mobile operators make for connecting calls to each other's networks. Ecta said the lucrative charges not only penalise consumers but also distort competition, as they allow big operators to offer large...
[June 27, 2008, 8:47]
Campaign urges cheaper calls to mobiles
News Mobile termination rates (MTRs) are the fees a mobile operator charges other operators to connect calls to mobile phones on its network. Terminate the Rate, a campaign to lower mobile termination rates, is to hand a petition containing over 114,000...
[October 28, 2009, 14:54]
Mobile operators warn EC over termination rate cuts
News Termination rates are the charges mobile operators make for connecting calls to each other's networks. The Commission has launched a public consultation on the future of voice call termination rates, which will run until 3 September, 2008, and...
[July 1, 2008, 9:29]
Mobile phone firms referred to Competition Commission
News In September 2001, it instructed mobile companies to cut these charges -- known as termination costs -- by retail price inflation (RPI) minus 12 percentage points per year for four years. Because of termination charges, it costs significantly more...
[January 7, 2002, 14:34]
Regulator wants cheaper fixed-line-to-mobile calls
News Termination rates refer to the charges levied by one operator on another, when a customer of one network calls a mobile phone on another network. The European Commission has recently been taking a keen interest in mobile operators' charges, with...
[September 14, 2006, 13:30]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Roaming revenue works through termination charges, where operators accept calls from each other and charge each other a fee for so doing. If networks set each other sky-high termination charges, then each network can say "We'd love to cut the price...
[March 24, 2006, 16:50]
EC to clamp down on mobile roaming charges
News Oftel recommended last year that termination charges -- the amount that mobile operators charge each other and fixed-line operators whenever one of their subscribers receive a call from another network -- should be capped.
[February 28, 2002, 11:02]
EC 'not against' charges for receiving calls
News These lower end-user charges are based on the US having lower 'termination rates' — the charges levied by operators on each other for interconnecting calls — than Europe. Reding wants to see the average termination rate in Europe fall from eight...
[June 17, 2008, 12:44]
BT cuts landline-to-mobile rates
News Petter also criticised the termination rates that mobile operators charge each other for connecting calls between their networks. BT is supporting the European Union's efforts to make calling a mobile cheaper by cutting the excessive termination...
[October 24, 2008, 13:18]
UK mobile phone fee cuts will hurt operators
News The reduction in termination fees varies by spectrum band: Vodafone and O2, which use the 900MHz band, must reduce charges by approximately eight pence per minute; T-Mobile and Orange must reduce charges on their 1800MHz bands by 9.5 pence per...
[June 8, 2004, 12:10]
O2 wades into termination rate spat
News The justification came on Tuesday as Ofcom puts the finishing touches on its revised regulation of termination rates — the charges levied by Operator A on Operator B when B's customers call numbers on A's network.
[February 27, 2007, 14:13]
ShipHunt Demo
Downloads Added Simulator Score calculations Added High Score tracking Added New Skill Challenge - Collisions Improved help text organization, fixed map diameters Modified crush calculations Improved some message timings Improved screen switching handler...
[December 28, 2003, 7:00]
Seagate cuts a further 1,100 jobs
News These charges, primarily incurred in the June 2009 quarter, consist mainly of cash-based employee termination costs, which are expected to be substantially paid in the September 2009 quarter. Seagate expects the layoffs to be completed by the end...
[May 14, 2009, 10:38]
Ofcom tries again to speed up number porting
News When one operator's customer calls a another operator's customer, the second operator charges the first operator a 'termination rate'. The four big mobile operators — O2, Vodafone, T-Mobile and Orange — all charge more or less the same termination...
[August 4, 2009, 17:16]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog He complained that termination costs - which is what one telco charges another to accept a call - were nearly double that, so every time someone called a Telia number from 3, 3 was losing money. Telia was fighting 3's efforts to change that and set...
[December 9, 2005, 17:00]
Reverse the charges
Leader You'll note that no operator pretends that its charges are in any way related to the costs to it of providing the service, with one exception - we have to charge this much, operators claim, because that's how much the other operators charge us in...
[January 10, 2006, 14:00]
UK operators won't charge for received calls
News Reding's comments were in response to a question that was related to the European Commission's proposals for slashing the "termination rates" that operators charge each other to interconnect calls. A spokesperson for Reding's office told ZDNet.co...
[June 18, 2008, 12:32]
