[eccr] Brussels to clamp down on cost of calling mobiles

Brussels to clamp down on cost of calling mobiles
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The European Commission is planning a crackdown on mobile phone
companies with tough new rules that could force them to cut prices and
lose revenues. 

Brussels is concerned that mobile phone companies are making too much
profit by charging fixed line operators high prices for connecting to
the network. The fees - known as call termination charges - account for
up to two-thirds of the retail price of a call to a mobile phone and for
a substantial part of the revenues of mobile phone groups, according to
some estimates. 

The Commission's proposals will be published in the next few weeks. If
its recommendations are followed, they would make it easier for national
telecommunications regulators to force mobile phone companies to reduce
excessive call termination charges.


Financial Times - March 27, 2002
http://news.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?pagename=View&c=Article&cid=FT3WZKT8AZC&liv
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