Comreg decides that Non Existant Mobile Carrier has "Significant Market Power"

spongebob · 06-09-2004 9:41pm #1

.......and the carrier gets a bit peeved at Comreg about this seeing as they do not have any service on offer in Ireland At All, never mind one of 'significance' with which to have 'market power' ..... so they take Comreg to court or something according to the Irish Times today.

The carrier in question is the 3G operator 3 . Poor oul Meteor have apparently been lumped in there too . About 3% of the market gives you "Significant Market Power" then does it ?

Meanwhile the same Comreg does nothing about the Highest line rental in the World ....and the fact that it is not reinvested to any significant degree in the grubby piece of crap for which the rental is charged , surely an example of "Significant Market Power" within the popular understanding of the term .

Even Comwreck will have a hard time making this one out to be more facile and ludicrous than it already is.

Go 3

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query · 07-09-2004 8:27am

The Commission for Communications Regulation (ComReg) today designated Vodafone,
O2, Meteor and ‘3’ - as having Significant Market Power (SMP) in the wholesale market
for voice call termination on their respective individual mobile networks.
Mobile termination charges are the wholesale rates which operators, both fixed and
mobile, pay to mobile operators for calls that are connected to subscribers on their
networks. They affect consumers indirectly as they are factored in to the prices consumers
pay at retail level for fixed-to-mobile and mobile-to-mobile calls. By regulating Mobile
Termination Rates, the price which consumers pay to call mobile networks, can be
reduced.

Comreg decides that Non Existant Mobile Carrier has "Significant Market Power"

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