The Dutch regulator OPTA has published a draft decision for consultation on mobile terminating tariffs for Dutch mobile operators as of July 2007 to 1 July 2010. The draft decision includes the designation of all mobile operators in the Netherlands as operators with significant market power for call termination on their respective networks and oblige operators to reduce their tariffs for call termination services. The draft decisions follow earlier designations from OPTA of November 2005, which were annulled by Dutch court in September 2006. The current draft decision of OPTA is subject to national and EU Commission’s consultation.
The MTA tariffs for KPN and Vodafone as required by OPTA lead to tariffs of EUR 0.07 as of 1 July 2009 and for Orange and T-Mobile to EUR 0.081 respectively. The tariffs will be gradually lowered as of July 2007 according to the glide path as shown in the table below. For KPN this glide path also includes a voluntary decrease in the second quarter of 2009, which was part of an agreement among the Dutch mobile operators.
KPN expects that the lowering of the termination tariffs will lead to a further fine tuning of the existing mobile business model.
*) Effective date of new tariffs is 2 weeks after publication of final OPTA decision
The current mobile terminating tariffs for KPN and Vodafone are EUR 0.110 and EUR 0.124 for T-Mobile, Orange, Telfort and Tele-2.