Commerce Commission MTAS conference
General, posted: 2-Sep-2009 10:01
UPDATED: Includes Russell Stanners' opening remarks for Vodafone. I've stuck the whole thing in there as I have an electronic version.
I've just walked in to the Commerce Commission's conference looking into mobile termination rates.
The history so far (in a nutshell): The CC tried to regulate MTRs two years ago but the government of the day accepted legally binding Deeds of Undertaking from Vodafone and Telecom to reduce rates at a lower rate but to pass on all the savings (read the entire post)...
I've just walked in to the Commerce Commission's conference looking into mobile termination rates.
The history so far (in a nutshell): The CC tried to regulate MTRs two years ago but the government of the day accepted legally binding Deeds of Undertaking from Vodafone and Telecom to reduce rates at a lower rate but to pass on all the savings (read the entire post)...
What are termination rates?
General, posted: 1-Sep-2009 09:42
So what is a termination rate?
It's the fee one network pays another network to connect a call.
If you call me on my mobile from your landline you pay your provider a fee per minute, say 37c/minute.
I, however, am not paying my mobile provider a cent to receive that call. Nothing. Not a jot.
Yet the cost of connecting that call is shared roughly equally between both network providers. And, let's face it, it's in the interests of both network providers (read the entire post)...
It's the fee one network pays another network to connect a call.
If you call me on my mobile from your landline you pay your provider a fee per minute, say 37c/minute.
I, however, am not paying my mobile provider a cent to receive that call. Nothing. Not a jot.
Yet the cost of connecting that call is shared roughly equally between both network providers. And, let's face it, it's in the interests of both network providers (read the entire post)...
