The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has released the report Developments in Mobile Termination, reviewing developments in wholesale interconnection rates for mobile wireless telephone in the OECD area.
The report shows that wholesale interconnection rates for mobile wireless telephony services or Mobile Termination Rates (MTR) fell fifty-three percent between 2006 and 2011 in the OECD area.
Mobile termination rates are the charges that telecommunication network operators (fixed telephony, mobile and VoIP) pay to other operators for delivering mobile telephone calls on different networks.
According to the OECD's report, these costs have an influence on the flexibility that operators have to structure their retail offers. As such, a recommendation is made in the document for lower mobile termination rates as a driver of greater competition in the telecommunications market and also to encourage greater use of mobile services through flexible unlimited-calls plans, increasing consumer satisfaction. Lower mobile termination rates could also act to encourage innovation and the creation of new services in this market.
The document affirms that while, in some countries and subsequent to regulator intervention, mobile interconnection prices have fallen, there is room for rates to fall further.
Consult:
- Developments in Mobile Termination https://www.anacom.pt/render.jsp?contentId=1119930
Related information on ANACOM's website:
- Mobile termination - Report on the methodological definition with respect to the development and implementation of a cost model for mobile termination https://www.anacom.pt/render.jsp?contentId=1092494
