The European Commission has asked UK telecoms regulator, Ofcom, to reconsider its proposed glide path so that mobile termination rates will be reduced in half the suggested time period to 0.5p by the end of 2012 rather than 2014/2015.
On 1st April 2010, Ofcom laid out its proposal for lower MTRs being introduced over [...]

Last month Vodafone in its rebuttal of Ofcom’s proposal for reduced mobile termination rates, claimed that over four million mobile users would disconnect their mobile phones as a result of termination rates falling as low as 0.5p per minute.” This was the argument used by the operator in the piece published in the Daily [...]

This week Ed Vaizey MP, Minister for Culture, Communications and the Creative Industries, responded to a question on Mobile Termination Rates put to him by Iain Wright, MP for Hartlepool. Iain asked if he will bring forward proposals to reduce mobile telephone termination rates; and if he will make a statement.
Ed Vaizey responded: [...]

On the 13th an article appeared in the Sunday Telegraph entitled ‘Vodafone slams plan for lower connection charges’.
Vodafone is entitled to make its case and lay out its commercial arguments. However, when Vodafone attempts to enlist the poor, the elderly and otherwise disadvantaged to make its argument, we’re keen that the counter argument gets [...]