2009 Telecommunications Sector Report
In its special report entitled “Telecommunications 2009: Maintaining a Clear Course towards Competition”, the Monopolies Commission rejects the call for tighter regulation of mobile communications in the European Union. The further reduction in cross-border tariffs for mobile calls and charges for international roaming, the extension of regulation to cross-border data services, and the rather drastic reduction in charges for wholesale and retail services may appear positive from the consumers’ perspective in the short term, but may exceed the capacity of smaller mobile network operators in particular. Harmonisation of the methods used to calculate termination charges is not necessary.
The title should be understood as a plea to the Federal Government, the European Commission and the Federal Network Agency not to deviate from the current course of a clear focus on competition when regulating the telecommunications markets, promoting broadband roll-out and transposing the new European legal framework into national law.
