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Arcep agrees to slash mobile termination rates (France)

  • December 3rd, 2008
  • 11:17 am

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.

Agcom approves 10% cut in mobile termination rates by 2011 (Italy)

  • November 28th, 2008
  • 6:35 am

The Italian regulator Agcom finally approves the 10% cut in mobile termination rates for Italian mobile operators by 2011. The move is aligned with EU Commission’s requests, which calls for higher competition in Italian mobile market and provide increasing benefits in terms of decreasing consumer prices.
Under the new tariffs plan, Italy will lower the 2011 rates to $0.068 for Telecom Italia’s Tim, Vodafone Italia and Wind, from $0.114 for the first two operators and $0.123 for the third; and to $0.0815 for H3G’s 3 Italia from $0.168 currently. Agcom anticipates to achieve a full symmetry in terminations rates by 2012 at $0.058.