[asterisk-biz] UK Mobile Needed

[Steve Kennedy]

On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 02:15:58PM +0100, Chris Bagnall wrote:

> > To everyone whose business has been hurt or impaired by the practices of the
> > big 5 operators in the UK, perhaps you could all sign a petition by following the
> > link below, or attached email:
> > OFCOM is now in consultation to reduce the termination charges to 0.5p.
> Unfortunately, all that'll happen if such a limitation is imposed by Ofcom is that the MNOs will look at other ways to recoup the lost revenues (e.g. higher data charges, higher roaming charges, higher per-minute charges for mobile users, etc.)
> It's an interesting idea, but I fear the "solution" might cause more problems than it solves.

The operators aer already regulated and the termination rates are
already set by Ofcom. This is just Ofcom saying we're going to reduce
them further unless someone comes up with a good reason why we
shouldn't.

> And really, how has anyone's business been hurt or impaired by the UK operators setting their own termination charges? One assumes you're marking it up by your usual margin, so whether you buy at 5.5p and sell at 6p or buy at 0.5p and sell at 1p is of little consequence.

Oddly Hutchinson 3G have been pushing for 'scrap the termination rate'
(along with BT I think), though for a long time 3 had the highest mobiel
termination rates, but then being the smallest operator most of the
calls are from their customers to other networks, so they payout more
than they receive i.e. they want lower termination from the other
networks.

> If nothing else, I struggle to criticise anything that makes people think twice before phoning my mobile when I have a perfectly good SIP phone on my desk :-)

Because your mobile is always with you ...

Steve

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