So far our campaign to lower Mobile Termination Rates has massively raised the profile of the issue thanks to all of you that signed our petition. Your support for the campaign was vital in helping Ofcom to recommend bringing MTRs down from 4.3p to 0.5p. If Ofcom’s recommendation becomes a reality then we could all [...]

Dutch consumers look set to save millions of Euros per year after telecoms regulator OPTA agreed to slash the price of making a phone call. The decision means MTRs will be cut by up to 83%, and will see the price of a call drop from EURO 0.7 per minute to EURO 0.012. Fixed network [...]

Ofcom’s consultation on the future of Mobile Termination Rates runs for a total of 12 weeks, from the date of publication, 1st April 2010 until the 23rd June 2010. Over this period, the big mobile operators will be scrutinising Ofcom’s proposals on MTRs and will almost certainly seek to challenge every point they can [...]

Today Ofcom announced a recommendation for Mobile Termination Rates to be lowered to 0.5p, which everyone here at Terminate the Rate thinks is fantastic news for UK consumers. Ofcom’s recommendation does however mean that people will have to wait until 2014 to experience the full benefit of lower termination rates. The drop in MTRs [...]