Vodafone, O2 & Meteor to reduce MTRs to EUR0.05 in 2012

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Ireland’s three mobile operators, Vodafone, O2 and Meteor, have agreed on lowering the mobile termination rates by 47% over a period of three years to EUR0.05. From 1April’10, Vodafone and O2′s MTR will drop to EUR0.078 whereas Meteor will reduce its MTR to EUR0.094, and the trio will further reduce network interconnection tariffs in stages, with Vodafone and O2′s MTRs dropping to EUR0.05 on 1 April 2012 and Meteor’s MTRs reaching that rate on 1 October 2012.
ComReg, the Irish regulator, anticipates that the mobile operators will pass on their wholesale savings to end-users.