Comms:
News ToolsReg Shops |
Spanish regulators in mobile price fix probeWhat Spanish practices?Published Tuesday 16th October 2007 13:36 GMT Spanish regulators have opened an investigation into the country's three largest mobile firms over allegations of price fixing. The National Competition Commission is looking at whether Movistar, Vodafone and Orange colluded in increasing tariffs in March. The price increases were introduced after a system that rounded up call lengths to their nearest minute was banned. By billing calls to the nearest minute instead of the nearest second, the operators raked in additional revenues of €1.21bn ($1.7bn) in 2005, according to estimates by the Spain's Consumer and Users Organisation, Reuters reports. The investigation by the National Competition Commission follows a complaint by the consumer association back in February, when the tarriff changes were introduced. Movistar is Spain's biggest mobile operator with 22m clients. Vodafone numbers 14.6m clients, while third place Orange has 11.1m to its name. ® 9 comments posted — Comment period finished Just how mobile mad are the Spanish?Posted: 14:12 16th October 2007 one point twenty-one...Posted: 14:44 16th October 2007 I live in Spain so I'm getting a kick out of this...Posted: 15:26 16th October 2007 Call Rounding Banned...Posted: 15:57 16th October 2007 Complain To EUPosted: 16:11 16th October 2007
Track this type of story as a custom Atom/RSS feed or by email.
|
|
Top 20 stories • All The Week’s Headlines • Archive • Search