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CAT publishes judgment on mobile termination appeals
The UK Competition Appeals Tribunal (CAT) has published its judgment on the price control matters in appeals brought against Ofcom by Hutchison 3G (H3G) and BT over mobile call termination rates. These are the rates paid between interconnecting networks to terminate calls to each other’s subscribers – they can account for up to 20% of a network’s revenues. In relation to BT's appeal, The CAT upheld the Competition Commission (CC) 16 January determination and issued directions to Ofcom to adopt a price control reducing the charges for connecting to the mobile networks to 4.0 pence per minute (ppm) in the cases of O2, Orange, T-Mobile and Vodafone, and 4.3ppm in the case of H3G by 2010/11. The CAT also upheld the CC's determination rejecting H3G’s appeal.
Frontier (Europe) advised Vodafone.
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