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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]
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]
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]
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]
Former Exec Sues Google Over 'youthful' Culture
News Lawyers for the former Google employee contend that the firing was executed at that particular time to keep Reid from benefiting from Google's IPO, which was announced only nine days after his termination.
[July 27, 2004, 12:00]
Wholesale Carrier Services: A Great Fillip To VoIP
Blog These companies can very well access the termination services provided by wholesalers anywhere in the world. The Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) is a signaling protocol that uses communication sessions for providing initiation and termination of...
[May 6, 2008, 8:03]
Mobile Operators Angered By Latest Roaming Proposals
News To arrive at the same result but with a simpler and more transparent terminology, the proposal now says at the wholesale level these costs will be pegged to the national termination rate. By taking the average of all the European mobile termination...
[June 13, 2006, 16:40]
Stock Options For Laid-off Amazon Employees
News Typically in a stock-option plan, employees have 90 days after termination to exercise their vested options. Compensation executives said that high-tech companies occasionally make various allowances to stock option packages after letting employees...
[January 31, 2001, 10:50]
Bad Ofcom! Says Reding
Blog Euro Commissioner Reding has sent an open letter to Ofcom chastising it for its proposal that mobile termination rates (what operator B charges operator A when A's customer calls B) should be kept high-ish, to include the hefty investments that...
[November 28, 2006, 14:12]
News Burst: Oftel Launches Review Of Mobile Phone Charges
News It will focus on "termination charges" -- the price paid when a mobile user calls a mobile on a different network -- which typically make up two-thirds of the cost of a call to a mobile phone. Telecoms watchdog Oftel today launched a consultation...
[February 20, 2001, 10:18]
Mobile Pricing Cut Hits BT Revenue
News The challenge in question, according to BT, was lower pricing and changes in telecoms regulation that saw fixed-to-mobile termination charges cut -- leaving it with 3 percent less consumer revenue year on year.
[November 14, 2003, 9:50]
HP Plans Further Job Cuts
News In the 13 September filing, HP noted that it planned to take restructuring charges related to the early retirement or termination of 8,200 HP workers and 8,600 employees of pre-merger Compaq Computer.
[September 25, 2002, 7:54]
Vodafone To Launch HSDPA
News Use above that limit may trigger a variety of responses from Vodafone according to its "reasonable opinion", including unspecified access charges and/or termination of service. Vodafone looks set to beat its UK rivals by launching the first...
[June 21, 2006, 10:55]
VoIP Reseller: Their Spontaneous Response To Customers Worldwide
Blog The termination services provided by VoIP resellers are most often branded in their own names. The cost charges, however, remain low as compared to the traditional telephone lines or mobile phone services.
[April 29, 2008, 5:39]
Business VoIP: For Better And Affordable Communication
Blog There are two types of VoIP business plans namely- call termination as well as IP Centrex. The application of the Internet for generating telephone lines means reduction of charges that would otherwise have been applicable in the traditional PSTN...
[May 6, 2008, 8:03]
