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Mobile operators set to receive rate cuts
News The Competition Commission has decided the UK's mobile termination rates — the amount one operator pays another to connect a call over their network — should be cut. The announcement comes following a successful appeal by BT against mobile...
[January 26, 2009, 7:22]
Mobile operators warn EC over termination rate cuts
News The European Commission's telecoms commissioner, Viviane Reding, has said mobile termination rates could fall by as much as 70 percent over the next three years. A spokesman for GSMA warned: "If you're going to make a big change to something as...
[July 1, 2008, 9:29]
Campaign urges cheaper calls to mobiles
News Terminate the Rate, a campaign to lower mobile termination rates, is to hand a petition containing over 114,000 signatures to Ofcom on Wednesday, calling on the industry regulator to make mobile operators charge less for connecting calls.
[October 28, 2009, 14:54]
Operators pressured to cut mobile-termination fees
News The European telecoms regulator Ecta — the European Competitive Telecommunications Association — has urged European Commission information society and media commissioner Viviane Reding to force mobile operators to cut mobile-termination rates.
[June 27, 2008, 8:47]
Regulator wants cheaper fixed-line-to-mobile calls
News Ofcom's plans follow a review of its regulation of "termination rates" — the current regulation of which are due to expire in March next year. Termination rates refer to the charges levied by one operator on another, when a customer of one network...
[September 14, 2006, 13:30]
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]
Mobile operators reap savings from Ofcom
News For the first time, third-generation network 3 and other 3G providers will be subject to the new "termination rate" charges of 5.9p per minute, while the UK's other four main operators will be subject to rates of 5.1p per minute, whether the call...
[March 28, 2007, 10:14]
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]
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. The Financial Times quoted her as saying current European termination rates...
[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]
Truphone to pursue T-Mobile court case
News He confirmed that Truphone would file its full case against T-Mobile with the courts on Friday, as ordered by the judge who granted the interim injunction, and maintained that T-Mobile's claims regarding the level of termination rates were incorrect.
[July 17, 2007, 15:31]
EC to clamp down on mobile roaming charges
News Mobile termination rates are also an area of concern: as these wholesale rates are not visible to consumers -- neither the caller nor the person called is aware of the rates being charged for termination -- there is scope for mobile operators to...
[February 28, 2002, 11:02]
Wholesale Carrier Services: A Great Fillip To VoIP
Blog The termination service is most often accompanied with the best of the rates and very high quality routes. These companies can very well access the termination services provided by wholesalers anywhere in the world.
[May 6, 2008, 10:03]
Mobile operators angered by latest roaming proposals
News By taking the average of all the European mobile termination rates, we peg the roaming rate to a national tariff, but we also [ensure] a certain margin of competition between operators. To arrive at the same result but with a simpler and more...
[June 13, 2006, 16:40]
Reverse the charges
Leader We all know that moving a packet of data from Adelaide to Aberdeen costs no more than moving it from Croydon to Chelsea - and while we also know that mobile phone companies use termination costs to mutually and massively overcharge for...
[January 10, 2006, 14:00]
Micron shows first DDR-II memory demo
News Line termination was introduced in DDR-I-based DDR266 memory modules in the form of resistors soldered into the memory modules; for DDR-II memory, the line termination is shifted onto the die, increasing signal quality further and resulting in...
[July 11, 2002, 15:44]
3 stung by termination caps
Blog The streetfighting upstart of the UK operator community, it has been hit hard by Ofcom's decision to cap termination rates. Pity poor 3. In an interview with the Financial Times, the chief executive of 3 UK, Kevin Russell, has claimed that Ofcom's...
[May 30, 2007, 17:08]
Loan
Downloads The loan amount, total monthly cost, net monthly cost, credit termination date, number of rates, the remainder, extra expenses and the total price a calculated based on the input. This application is a loan calculator for the annuity method which...
[December 11, 2008, 7:30]
Estimating Demand for Cellular Phone Service Under Nonlinear Pricing
White Papers The goal is to present a framework that can be used to obtain demand parameters and to evaluate the impact of termination-based price discrimination. These discounts considerably increase the market concentration rates.
[February 24, 2006, 0:01]
Ofcom tries again to speed up number porting
News For example, if 3 wins a customer from T-Mobile, it gets lower termination rates for calls made to the customer than it would if the customer had just joined 3 directly. When one operator's customer calls a another operator's customer, the second...
[August 4, 2009, 17:16]
