termination rates
Ofcom to shake up number-porting times
News For example, if 3 wins a customer from T-Mobile, it gets lower termination rates for calls made to the customer than it would if the customer had just joined 3 directly. When one operator's customer... [05 Aug 2009]
Legal Eye: How to save money with offshoring
Comment In this case it may be appropriate to include explicit termination rights. Clients are rightfully concerned about locking in rates for a long term transaction at a time of deflationary pricing.... [26 May 2009]
Outsourcing - expert tips on iron-clad protection
News But these messy divorces are not inevitable, with a bit of forethought and good contract discipline, outsourcing specialists at law firm DLA Piper say it is possible to avoid acrimonious staff custody battles and costly... [07 May 2009]
Rate cuts on the cards for mobile operators
News The Competition Commission has decided the UK's mobile termination rates - the amount one operator pays another to connect a call over their network - should be cut. The announcement comes following a... [23 Jan 2009]
Mobile operators warn over termination rate cuts
News The European Commission's telecoms commissioner, Viviane Reding, says mobile termination rates could fall by as much as 70 per cent over the next three years. A spokesman for the GSMA warned: "If you're... [30 Jun 2008]
‚¬100bn of consumer cash wasted on mobile termination fees
News The European telecoms regulatory lobby group ECTA (European Competitive Telecommunications Association) has urged the European Commission information society and media commissioner Viviane Reding to force mobile operators to cut mobile... [26 Jun 2008]
'Pay to receive' calls won't happen, say UK operators
News Reding's comments were in response to a question that was related to the European Commission's proposals for slashing the "termination rates" that operators charge each other to interconnect calls. A... [19 Jun 2008]
Fibre connectivity set to change, says EC
News Ducatel said the main issues that needed to be consistently addressed across Europe included next-generation access and mobile termination rates, the fees charged between mobile operators that determine... [28 Feb 2008]
Will mobile operators give customers £400m?
News For the first time, third-gen network 3 and other 3G providers will be subject to the new "termination rate" charges of 5.9p per minute, while the UK's other four main operators will be subject to rates... [27 Mar 2007]
Roaming rates to fall by up to 70 per cent
News By taking the average of all the European mobile termination rates, we peg the roaming rate to a national tariff but we also [ensure] a certain margin of competition between operators. He added: "The... [14 Jun 2006]
Up to £28bn to be cut from Vodafone goodwill
News Vodafone said the forecast was due to an "increasingly intense competitive environment, continuing regulatory reductions in termination rates and the one-off beneficial impact in the year ending 31 March... [27 Feb 2006]
BT ends con-Fusion with Bluephone launch
News While BT claims customers can save themselves eyebrow-raising figures by using Fusion compared to some other mobile bundles - up to 95 per cent on some off-peak calls - users will, however, incur mobile termination... [15 Jun 2005]
It's tough out there, says O2 boss - as 500 jobs cut
News The company also revealed it expected its second half 2004 results to be lacklustre, due to losing a contract with BT, a recent 30 per cent cut in termination rates - the amount mobile networks can... [23 Mar 2005]
"On track" Vodafone breaks 150-million barrier
News UK figures were hit by reductions in termination rates but still recorded three per cent growth, as opposed to seven per cent excluding those reductions. Vodafone has announced it has passed the... [26 Jan 2005]
BT surfs the new wave for £1bn
News BT's turnover across the company for the first six months of this year rose by one per cent, to £9.2bn, excluding mobile termination rates, compared to the corresponding period last year. BT has... [11 Nov 2004]