The Commission wants to increase national regulators’ powers to force operators to cut these call termination charges. It believes that termination charges act as a subsidy from landline phone users to mobile subscribers.
Under the proposed regulations, each mobile operator would be views as a monopolist in call termination. This would allow EU monopoly regulations to be used. The Commission is also reportedly planning to bring antitrust cases against the Netherlands’ KPN and Libertel Vodafone.
