[IP] more on Cell Phone Controversy in Winthrop
Begin forwarded message:
From: Bjørn Vermo <bv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: August 15, 2004 7:20:31 AM EDT
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx, Ip <ip@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [IP] Cell Phone Controversy in Winthrop
On Sun, 15 Aug 2004 06:02:44 -0400, David Farber <dave@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
It's a first-of-its kind attempt. A small, local phone company is
trying to charge cellular providers for dialing home phone numbers. If
wireless companies don't comply, the company says it will cut off cell
phone calls to land lines in the town.
What is first about this? Of course mobile operators have to pay
landline operators for call termination, just as landline operators
have to pay mobile operators for calls in the other direction and one
mobile operator charges the other when customers of one mobile operator
call customers of another. This is a decade-old integral part of the
international GSM interoperability. How could it be otherwise? Why
would one operator want to forward calls the other operator gets all
the income for?
Does this also mean that the local telephone company is terminating
long-distance calls from other companies for free?
There have been complaints, both here in Norway and in other countries,
that incumbent monopoly operators have been charging too much for call
termination. This applies both to calls from mobile operators and from
competing landline operators. I have, however, never seen any
suggestion that they should provide the service for free.
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