| NOTAS: | "Mobile termination rates (MTRs) are the wholesale fees that mobile communication providers charge each other for terminating calls on their networks and are the price floor in terms of the retail cost to consumers. Call termination is a natural monopoly and so MTRs have long been regulated by most national regulatory authorities (NRAs) in an effort to reduce them to cost-based levels. For the most part, this has been successfully achieved in more mature markets such as the EU, causing the issue to no longer feature as highly on regulatory agendas in the region. However, around a quarter of member states remain non-compliant with the European Commission’s (EC’s) 2009 Recommendation on the Regulatory Treatment of Fixed and Mobile Termination Rates. Elsewhere in the world, cost-oriented rates using a long-run incremental cost (LRIC) model have broadly been imposed, but the lack of supranational frameworks has still led to the adoption of differing regulatory approaches to mobile call termination across Asia-Pacific, South and Central America, and the Middle East and Africa." |
