Telephone calls could become cheaper starting on May 1 of this year, ANCOM announcing today the change in the costs of terminating calls to mobile points. According to ANCOM, the value of these tariffs will decrease by 12.5% starting on May 1, 2018 from 0.96 euro cents per minute to 0.84 euro cents per minute.
ANCOM announced this measure at the end of last year, and now it confirms that it will put it into practice, it being a transitory measure until the completion of a new cost model. The interesting part is that although the termination rates of telephone calls to mobile points will decrease, mobile operators are not obliged to decrease the costs of telephone calls as well.
Phone calls should be cheaper from May 1
Practically, mobile operators will pay 0.84 eurocents to the network to which the phone call is made, instead of 0.96 eurocents, so national calls would have to be cheaper. ANCOM made this change because terminal tariffs for national calls have not decreased for several years and are calculated based on an outdated cost model.
"With this reduction in tariffs between operators, companies will be motivated to operate at the most efficient costs, which will encourage competition and which will also be reflected in the prices paid by users for calls in mobile networks."
The current tariff approved today by ANCOM represents the average tariffs for the provision of mobile telephony services in the member states of the European Union. Under the command of Sorin Grindeanu, ANCOM is going to change the calculation model for mobile services in Romania, but it could take some time until it is finalized and put into practice.
