The European Commission has intimidated German Regulators to produce more details over country’s mobile termination fees, else face legal action. The move is to trim-down mobile termination rates, the tariffs that operators charge each other for routing calls when more than one network is used. The lowered termination fees will lead to cheaper tariffs for subscribers. Germany had failed twice in 2006 and this year, to include termination rates in analyses of the telecoms market it must submit to Brussels for approval to ensure adequate competition, said, EU Telecoms Commissioner Viviane Reding. “Germany cannot be granted an exemption from what is required under the EU telecoms rules and what is common practice in other member states,” Reding said. According to recent figures, in July, the average mobile termination rate was 10 U.S. cents, a minute, below average for the 27-nation EU.
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EU intends to slash German mobile termination fees
- December 4th, 2008
- 11:48 am
Sprint makes a move to reduce early termination fees (USA)
- October 30th, 2008
- 5:14 am
Sprint Nextel is in line with other three incumbent operators in cutting the penalties it imposes on customers who choose to end their contracts with the company early. It is anticipated that the operator’s early termination fees will be cut for each month the customer completes of heir contract. According to Sprint chief executive Dan Hesse, the lowered prices could be introduced as soon as December. The Federal Communications Communications (FCC) said that the early termination fees probably contravene state law.
The wireless operator says that the the fees were necessary to allow them to recoup the subsidies they pay towards handsets and service set-up costs.
