Brussels, 02/07/2010 (Agence Europe) - In its ruling in Case C-99/09 on 1 July, the Court stated that the amount of the charge that consumers must pay to retain the same phone number when changing operator (“portability of a number”) must take into account the costs incurred by operators for providing this service, as set out explicitly in the 2002 “universal service” directive. Nonetheless, it is up to the National Regulatory Authority (NRA) to assess - using an objective, reliable...