There are a lot of appeals going on at the UK Competition Appeal Tribunal.
Vodafone and Everything Everywhere say Ofcom's cut their mobile termination rates by too much, while Three UK and BT say the rates haven't been cut enough.
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Mark Bridge writes:
The Terminate The Rate campaign has pretty much run its course. Its aim was to get Mobile Termination Rates reduced. These are the wholesale charges paid when a mobile or fixed-line network connects a call from one of its customers to a rival. Lower MTRs would mean better deals on call charges, the campaign argued.
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In The Fonecast this week we discuss mobile termination rates, traffic management for mobile broadband, smart meters, protests, applications and crime-busting ringtones.
We also talk about the Japanese earthquake, which - although it's predominantly a human tragedy - also has economic consequences for the mobile industry.
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Iain, James and Mark look at the week's mobile news headlines, from Ofcom cutting termination rates to Opera launching its own application store... and they also hear how an unusual ringtone resulted in a criminal gang being apprehended.
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Ofcom has announced a reduction in mobile termination rates that'll be effective from next month. Mobile termination rates are the wholesale charges paid by mobile operators when connecting calls to their rivals.
The last time it set MTRs was 2007, when it agreed a series of charges that dropped annually until 2011.
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