Mexico Challenges América Móvil’s Monopolistic Practices
9 May 2011Over the last few weeks Mexican authorities have been taking a tough stance against the country’s biggest wireless operator.
Over the last few weeks Mexican authorities have been taking a tough stance against the country’s biggest wireless operator.
The European Competitive Telecommunications Association (ECTA) yesterday claimed that lucrative wholesale charges imposed by incumbent mobile operators for connecting calls to each other’s networks are both excessive and discriminatory. As a result, European consumers are being penalized.
Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands and Sweden are world leaders in broadband deployment with penetration rates over 30 per cent by the end of 2007, according to the European Commission’s 13th Progress Report on the Single Telecoms Market, issued today.
At its plenary session in Gothenburg, Sweden, the European Regulators Group (ERG) decided to focus on new areas to strengthen the European single electronic communications market.
INTUG responded to the European Regulators Group’s public consultation on call termination rates (TRs). Unlike ERG, INTUG takes the general absolute value of mobile termination rates (MTRs) in consideration, instead of the percentage with which rates might have decreased. While some rates are not at the real-cost level, some mobile operators are allowed to increase their MTR with the inflation rate, which, in some countries, could lead to an increase of MTRs.