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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9316

29 November 2006
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/telecommunications
Commission asks UK regulator not to include inflated 3G auction costs in termination rates for mobile phone operators

Brussels, 28/11/2006 (Agence Europe) - In a letter sent to the Office of Communications ("Ofcom", the UK telecom watchdog) on 22 November, the European Commission expresses concerns as to how wholesale tariffs, charged by the five UK mobile operators (2G/3G operators O2, Orange, T-Mobile and Vodafone, and the 3G operator Hutchison 3G) for terminating calls to their customers, have been assessed. In the Commission's view, Ofcom's proposed tariffs keep termination values higher than necessary...

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