Rum_Pirate
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<span style="color:black">The Terminate the Rate campaign is calling for rates to be reduced to one penny or less per minute, from its current rate of around 4.7 pence.
"Our calculations show that the cost of terminating a call on a mobile network is less than a penny. The current regime allows all mobile operators to charge much more, at a cost of millions of pounds to U.K. consumers," said Kevin Russell, CEO of 3 UK, on Wednesday.
"It's clear that the days of cost-plus mobile termination rates (MTRs) are drawing to a close," Delaney said, noting that both fixed and mobile voice networks are now mature, and both fixed and mobile players are investing in high-speed broadband networks, creating a more symmetrical market than when the scheme was first introduced.
"On that basis, it's hard to see a disinterested argument in favour of allowing mobile operators to continue indefinitely charging more for termination than is necessary to recover their costs," Delaney said.
Consider this:
The MTR (Mobile Termination Rate of some 500% mark-up is somewhat usury and gouging. For example:<span style="color:blue">
Federal authorities are currently prosecuting Nicodemo Scarfo Jr.—the 36-year-old son of jailed-for-life Philadelphia godfather Nicodemo "Little Nicky" Scarfo—for running a loan-sharking and gambling operation in New Jersey. According to a New York Times article, an FBI sweep of Junior's computer hard drive revealed that he was breaking federal usury laws by charging annual interest of 152 percent a year]/b] for his very illegal loans.</span>
For more info see
http://www.totaltele.com/view.aspx?C=3&ID=445773 </span>
"Our calculations show that the cost of terminating a call on a mobile network is less than a penny. The current regime allows all mobile operators to charge much more, at a cost of millions of pounds to U.K. consumers," said Kevin Russell, CEO of 3 UK, on Wednesday.
"It's clear that the days of cost-plus mobile termination rates (MTRs) are drawing to a close," Delaney said, noting that both fixed and mobile voice networks are now mature, and both fixed and mobile players are investing in high-speed broadband networks, creating a more symmetrical market than when the scheme was first introduced.
"On that basis, it's hard to see a disinterested argument in favour of allowing mobile operators to continue indefinitely charging more for termination than is necessary to recover their costs," Delaney said.
Consider this:
The MTR (Mobile Termination Rate of some 500% mark-up is somewhat usury and gouging. For example:<span style="color:blue">
Federal authorities are currently prosecuting Nicodemo Scarfo Jr.—the 36-year-old son of jailed-for-life Philadelphia godfather Nicodemo "Little Nicky" Scarfo—for running a loan-sharking and gambling operation in New Jersey. According to a New York Times article, an FBI sweep of Junior's computer hard drive revealed that he was breaking federal usury laws by charging annual interest of 152 percent a year]/b] for his very illegal loans.</span>
For more info see
http://www.totaltele.com/view.aspx?C=3&ID=445773 </span>
