Press Release: Telecoms: European Commission urges Slovakian telecoms regulator to take stronger action on mobile termination rates

In a letter sent on 7 September 2009, the European Commission repeated its calls for the Slovakian telecoms regulator, Telekomunikačný úrad Slovenskej republiky (TÚSR), to bring mobile termination rates (MTRs) to more competitive levels in Slovakia. MTRs are the wholesale charges which mobile operators charge other operators for connecting calls on their networks. In a letter sent to the regulator earlier in the year, the Commission highlighted the importance of moving to efficient MTRs as soon as possible and called on TÚSR to make sure that its transitional price control measures allow for important progress towards such an efficient cost level. This would in turn help a swift transition to the approach set out in the Commission's Recommendation on Termination Rates, which says that MTRs should be set at the level of the cost of an efficient operator in all Member States by 31 December 2012.

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ESO: Background Information: Telecoms: Commission acts on termination rates to boost competition http://www.europeansources.info/record/press-release-telecoms-commission-acts-on-termination-rates-to-boost-competition/

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