German telecom regulator BNetzA set mobile call termination condi...
German telecom regulator BNetzA set mobile call termination conditions for the country’s mobile carriers. Orders given Wed. apply to T-Mobile, Vodafone, E-Plus and O2, and include interconnection obligations, a requirement to provide a standard offer for access services, an…
Sign up for a free preview to unlock the rest of this article
Timely, relevant coverage of court proceedings and agency rulings involving tariffs, classification, valuation, origin and antidumping and countervailing duties. Each day, Trade Law Daily subscribers receive a daily headline email, in-depth PDF edition and access to all relevant documents via our trade law source document library and website.
anti-bias clause and a condition that BNetzA approve termination rates in advance. Under Germany’s telecom act, the deadline for rate-setting is 10 weeks, meaning actual prices will be released by mid-Nov. The German Competitive Carriers Assn. (VATM) lauded the orders but said “this is not the end of the story.” The regulator must set rates for services in line with the law’s principle of efficient provisioning, said attorney Axel Spies, representing VATM. That means it must study each carrier’s costs based on actual documents, “not just by comparing the rates with similar rates in other countries.” Review should lead to a structure discerning between large and small mobile networks operators and authorizing different rates for each, weighing, among other things, which frequencies each has available for its services, Spies said.