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Ofcom announce a reduction in mobile termination rates

Posted by Lucy Elder on 15 March 2011

Ofcom today announced a reduction in mobile termination rates – the wholesale charges that mobile operators make to other operators to connect calls to their networks – designed to benefit UK consumers. From 1 April, Ofcom will place a cap on the rates charged by all four national mobile network operators – 3UK, O2, Everything Everywhere and Vodafone.

This will lead to around an 80% reduction in termination rates over the next four years.

We have been told that BT are unable to pass this price reductions on to us to start on 1st April and so we will update our mobile prices as soon as we are able to do so which will be by 1st May. We will do everything in our power to get these new rates to you as soon as possible, please look out for further updates as they become available.

For further information please see http://consumers.ofcom.org.uk/2011/03/lower-mobile-rates-to-benefit-consumers/