ERG Approves Common Rules on VoIP
Europe’s NRAs have approved a number of measures to improve the functioning of telecommunication markets, according to a press release from ERG, the European Regulators Group.
The key outcome of the ERG/IRG meeting in Rome on 6-7 December was the approval of a Common Position for a harmonized application of regulation of VoIP services.Other key points agreed on include: improved mechanisms for exposing the level of compliance of NRAs with ERG common positions; a public consultation document on a draft Common Position on symmetric regulation of termination rates amongst fixed network operators and amongst mobile network operators; and a public consultation on draft best practice guidelines for the regulation of wholesale broadband access markets.
ERG also approved a Work Programme for 2008, which includes further work on termination rates and consideration of regulatory approaches to sub-national geographic differentiation. The Work Programme for the coming year will include a check of mobile data roaming charges in Europe.
Source: ERG
