Success for Terminate the Rate: Ofcom rules on cheaper calls to mobiles.

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Regulator Ofcom has come to its decision on the future of Mobile Termination Rates (MTRs). They are coming down significantly, just not as far or as fast as we and many others had hoped.


MTRs are the fees that mobile operators are allowed to charge to anyone that connects a voice call to their network, bumping up the price of calling mobiles.


Last April Ofcom set out its proposals to reduce the amount mobile operators were able to charge from 4.3p per minute to 2.5p in April 2011 with the price coming down each April to 0.5p in 2014.


The idea behind these changes is that mobile operators should only be able to charge a fee reflecting the true cost of that service, not an inflated fee.


Ofcom has stuck to its guns on the principle, which is good news. But it has opted for slightly higher figures than it initially suggested and still won’t make the full benefits of these savings a reality until April 2014.


Ofcom has ruled that from April MTRs must come down from around 4.3p per minute to 2.98p, eventually coming down to around a penny in three years’ time.


What does this mean for consumers?


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