| NOTAS: | "The regulation of mobile call termination has long been on the agenda of most national regulatory authorities (NRAs). Mobile termination rates (MTRs) are the price floor in terms of the retail cost to consumers and mobile network operators (MNOs) are accustomed to pressure from regulators aiming to reduce rates to cost-based levels.
In most mature markets, such as EU countries, MTRs have been brought down to cost-based levels for some time; this has meant that the issue is no longer high on the regulatory agenda and NRAs have turned their attention to other issues. Nonetheless, some EU countries have not yet complied with the EC’s Recommendation of 2009 on the Regulatory Treatment of Fixed and Mobile Termination Rates.
The lack of supranational frameworks means that significant divergences exist in how mobile call termination is regulated in Asia-Pacific, South and Central America, and the Middle East and Africa. Nevertheless, cost-oriented rates using a long-run incremental cost (LRIC) model have been broadly imposed, although the use of glidepaths for the coming years is less widespread." |
