The end-game of free voice telephony finally appears to be in sight…
Sometimes, you have to do a reality check: it’s not very long ago that I was joined in some intense commercial battles over the division of spoils in call termination. Now, a study for the European Commission by French consultants, Tera, has concluded that, by the end of 2012, fixed and mobile termination charges will converge at around 1 Eurocent/minute under the ‘improved’ calling-party-pays regime being mandated by the EU (this being based on the controversial adoption of “pure” LRIC network costing). In that event, Tera believes, a move to a true Bill & Keep interconnection regimes becomes highly likely – if only because the cost of maintaining complex billing systems is no longer justified.
(But a few, final skirmishes in the Voice market still seem likely...).
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