By Mark Graham, 24 September 2001 08:20
NEWS Oftel is expected to order mobile phone operators to cut their charges later this week. The telecoms regulator is publishing the findings of a six-month investigation into competition between mobile operators in the UK. The report is expected to scrutinise interconnection charges paid by mobile customers using their phones to call subscribers on rival networks as well as the calls made between mobile phones and land lines. Analysts expect Oftel to introduce a price cap to operators Orange and One2One, who both escaped the interconnection charges placed on Vodafone and BTCellnet in 1998 following a Monopolies and Mergers Commission report. However, because Orange and One2One now have a larger market share, they are expected to be included in these investigations. Analysts predict a price cap could cost operators up to 13 per cent of their total revenues.
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