Wholesale mobile voice call termination

BT's response to Ofcom's two consultations on wholesale mobile voice call termination: the charge control consultation and the future regulation consultation.

Ofcom's consultation documents were both published on 7 June 2005.  BT submitted its composite response on 17 August 2005. 

Executive summary:

BT believes that Ofcom should impose a four-year charge control on voice call termination services from 1 April 2006, and that this should be applied irrespective of the technology used to provide the service.  If, however, Ofcom decides to implement only a one-year control, this should not simply be a freeze of charges at existing levels.  We believe the control should, instead, provide customers with lower charges, because current rates are still well in excess of costs.  A continuation of recent trends, and the costs of 2G voice call termination, suggest reductions of around 10% are warranted.  This would provide customers with savings of around £100m in 2006/7.

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Comments should be addressed to Alan Lazarus at alan.lazarus@bt.com