BT forecasts that landline customers will pay £4m in Mobile Termination Rates over the Christmas period - “Like Santa Claus charging for delivery.”
Britain’s mobile operators are about to land themselves a £4m Christmas bonus through high Mobile Termination Rates as Britons call mobile phones from landlines with the season’s greetings. Mobile Termination Rates (MTRs) are [...]

Nigel Evans, Member of Parliament for the Ribble Valley, yesterday called for Ofcom to end mobile termination rates. Nigel was speaking at the BT Tower where those involved in the campaign to terminate the rate gathered to call on Ofcom to take notice.
Mr Evans said,
“When I originally tabled the Early Day Motion, I had no [...]

Monday night the Terminate the Rate campaign held a partner event at the top of BT Tower. The event was a chance to thank all our partners for their hard work over the past seven months as well as to talk about what’s going to happen next.
25 partners attended including representatives from the Post [...]

This really does seem to be an unstoppable campaign. I can’t see how the mobile companies can withstand the onslaught from the ‘Terminate the Rate’ campaign.
Already the petition has accumulated over 114,000 signatures (some of them I hope from my Tweets about it @Jasmine) but also 260 MPs (just under half the MPs in the [...]