By determination of 6 August 2015 and subsequent to notification of the respective draft decisions to the European Commission (EC), which informed ANACOM that it had no comments to make on the notified measures, ANACOM approved the following final decisions regarding:
- The wholesale markets of voice call termination on individual mobile networks and definition of product markets and geographic markets, assessment of significant market power (SMP) and the imposition, maintenance, amendment or withdrawal of regulatory obligations; and
- The mobile termination costing model - specification of the price control obligation.
Pursuant to these decisions, operators with SMP are made subject to an obligation to control prices. Based on the costing model developed for the purpose, the maximum price which operators may charge for termination has been set at 0.83 eurocents per minute. This price is to be applied within 10 working days following the final decision and until 1 July 2016.
Consult:
- Wholesale markets of voice call termination on individual mobile networks (market analysis and costing model) https://www.anacom.pt/render.jsp?contentId=1363331
Consult press release:
- ANACOM orders 35% cut in mobile termination rates https://www.anacom.pt/render.jsp?contentId=1363058
