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But ultimately it is our firm belief that high mobile termination rates don't protect low users, they create them.
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On June 13, Mrs. Kroes told the Dutch telecommunications regulator, OPTA, that its proposed level for the fees, known as mobile termination rates, was twice as high as what policy makers in Brussels thought was justified.
Mobile termination charges were set up in Europe in the late 1980s.
According to the group's estimates, British mobile operators collected £750 million, or $1.1 billion, in mobile termination rate revenue last year.
Regulators have recently pushed through cuts to mobile termination rates, the wholesale cost of calling a mobile from a landline or another mobile phone.
But given the rapid decline in mobile termination rates, such a changeover may be superfluous.
We cut 2012 earnings per share by 3%, post notably weak sector results and Italian mobile termination rate cuts last week.
Since March, regulators in Germany, France and Spain have cut the special charge for calling a mobile phone — known as the mobile termination rate — by 30percentto50percentcent.
In Europe, mobile termination rates range from 1.5 cents a minute in France to 8.5 cents in Luxembourg.
"As a receiver of calls the prepaid customers generated quite decent revenue (and profitability) from the mobile termination rates alone.
Every time the prospect of lower mobile termination rates is raised, operators have cried that prices would go up and that people would stop using their phones.
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