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 voice services in line with [...]

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: [...]