Arcep has confirmed the decision of slashing mobile termination rates between 1 July 2009 and 31 December 2010. Orange France and SFR, which currently charge EUR 0.065, will apply a maximum call termination rate of EUR 0.045 per minute from 1 July 2009 and EUR 0.03 between 1 July 2010 and 31 December 2010. Bouygues Telecom, which at present charges EUR 0.085, will apply a maximum rate of EUR 0.06 from 1 July 2009 and EUR 0.04 between 1 July 2010 and 31 December 2010. This decision is aimed at trimming-down end-user prices and to bring mobile service prices closer to those of fixed-line communications. Orange and SFR are not in favour of this decision. Orange believes that operators would lose their incentive to invest in network coverage and service quality and will affect the growth of mobile internet badly.

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