The Competition Appeal Tribunal has upheld BT’s appeal against Ofcom’s ruling that call termination charges for ‘non geographic’ numbers couldn’t be increased. As a result, BT can now claim higher payments from the UK’s mobile networks when connecting calls to 0845, 0870 and 0800 numbers.
However, the exact amount payable still needs to be determined by Ofcom - and the mobile networks could still appeal against the decision.