Ecuador’s regulator forces mobile price cutsThe maximum charge by mobile operators Porta and Movistar will come down to USD 0.30 from USD 0.50 per minute in 2008, according to a resolution passed by Ecuador’s telecommunications regulator, Conatel, El Universo reports. The decision will especially help prepaid customers, which account for 87 percent of all mobile phone users and are paying the highest rates. The new maximum rates will be applied to agreements currently being negotiated between the operators and the government. Conatel chairman Juan Carlos Solines said the move was intended to correct the gap between prepaid and postpaid. Currently, the average postpaid price is USD 0.08 per minute, compared to up to USD 0.49 for prepaid. The country’s third mobile operator, Alegro, is not involved in renegotiating its agreement with the government at present.
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