www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Hong Kong’s OFTA has reportedly withdrawn its regulatory guidance on fixed-mobile interconnection charges (FMIC), as the two-year phasing out of the mobile party’s network pays (MPNP) model ends. The interconnection charges for calls made to/from fixed/mobile networks will henceforth be settled by commercial agreements without ex ante regulatory intervention.
In a statement, the regulator says that the transitional period was intended to give mobile and fixed operators time to negotiate new FMIC arrangements, and that the deregulation of FMIC followed the government’s market-driven policy by removing regulatory asymmetry which was not conducive to the development of fixed-mobile convergence.
The CPP, calling party pays, will prove to be successful for mobile operators as the volume of fixed-to-mobile calls in Hong Kong outweighs mobile-to-fixed traffic.