http://www.terminatetherateblog.org BT, 3, moneysupermarket.com, the Federation of Small Businesses, Carers UK, the GMB, (Britain’s General Trade Union) and the National Union of Students who are working together to help influence the decision Ofcom makes on reducing the charge of Mobile Termination Rates (MTRs). Mon, 19 Sep 2011 16:33:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Terminate the Rate supporter Three has described the efforts by Vodafone, Everything Everywhere and O2 to overturn Ofcom's decision as "an attack on the wallet of everyone who calls a mobile" in an article in today's Daily Telegraph. Three has written to the Competition Appeal Tribunal highlighting the flaws in ... http://www.terminatetherateblog.org/2011/09/three-slams-attempts-by-incumbent-operators-to-overturn-ofcoms-decision-on-mtrs/ In response to Ofcom’s final decision to lower MTRs over the next three years, BT made significant cuts to the cost of landline to mobile phone calls from 28 May 2011. In the evening, the cost of calling a mobile on all major networks from a BT landline fell ... http://www.terminatetherateblog.org/2011/06/bt-delivers-on-terminate-the-rate-promise/ Just as we predicted, the established mobile operators are continuing to fight Ofcom’s move to reduce the cost of calling mobiles. Everything Everywhere, T-Mobile and Orange’s joint venture, along with Vodafone have filed appeals to the Competition Appeals Tribunal in a bid to undo Ofcom’s move to lower charges. ... http://www.terminatetherateblog.org/2011/05/ofcom-faces-appeals-on-mtr-decision/ The French regulator Arcep, has notified the European Commission of its draft decision to lower MTRs over a three year period with a target MTR of 0.8 €cents/min on January 1, 2013. Like Ofcom in the UK, Arcep has based its decision on the pure LRIC cost model which doesn’t ... http://www.terminatetherateblog.org/2011/03/france-to-see-mtrs-reduced-to-less-than-a-penny-a-year-earlier-than-in-the-uk/ Ofcom has announced its final decision on the future regulation of Mobile Termination Rates. Ofcom decided that MTRs will fall over a period of three years coming down to 2.66p in 2011, 1.70p in 2012, 1.08p in 2013 arriving at 0.69p in April 2014. Ofcom will adjust these ... http://www.terminatetherateblog.org/2011/03/it%e2%80%99s-official-ofcom-rules-in-favour-of-cheaper-calls-to-mobiles/ Just a short update to let you know that we now expect Ofcom’s decision to be announced at some point over the next couple of weeks. Please do continue to visit this site for all the latest information. As soon as the announcement is made, we’ll let you ... http://www.terminatetherateblog.org/2011/03/ofcom%e2%80%99s-final-decision-timing-update/ Ofcom’s final decision into the future regulation of mobile termination rates is expected to be announced at the end of February. We now only have a couple of weeks to go until we will find out what Ofcom has decided and if they will reduce MTRs to 0.5p by 2014 ... http://www.terminatetherateblog.org/2011/02/ofcom%e2%80%99s-final-decision-it%e2%80%99s-coming/ As we are rapidly approaching the end of the year, I wanted to update you on the timings around Ofcom’s final decision, currently expected in February 2011. Since the consultation closed in June this year, things have been quieter for the campaign as Ofcom has been away considering all the ... http://www.terminatetherateblog.org/2010/12/ofcom%e2%80%99s-final-decision-what%e2%80%99s-going-to-happen-in-2011/ New MP Luciana Berger, Shadow Minister for Energy and Climate Change, recently raised the issue of Mobile Termination Rates with Ed Vaizey MP in the House of Commons. Berger asked Vaizey at what level he expects MTRs to be set by January 2012 and, perhaps more significantly, what discussions he has ... http://www.terminatetherateblog.org/2010/10/mp-raises-the-issue-of-mtrs-with-ed-vaizey/ Last week, Three announced a new deal for mobile users that will challenge and change mobile phone pricing in the UK, something that has only been possible with the prospect of lower MTRs. The success of the Terminate the Rate campaign has given Three the ability to price ... http://www.terminatetherateblog.org/2010/07/terminate-the-rate-partner-three-launches-the-one-plan-thanks-to-prospect-of-low-mtrs/