Mobile Call Termination - Market Review - Ofcom

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Cymraeg

Phones and broadband Telecoms infrastructure Consultations and statements

Published: 30 March 2006

Consultation closes: 25 May 2006

Status: Closed (pending statement)

Wholesale mobile voice call termination is the service necessary for a network operator to connect a caller with the intended mobile recipient of a call on a different network. If call termination was not available a network operator could only terminate calls to other customers on its own network. This service is referred to as wholesale because it is sold and purchased by network operators rather than retail customers.

Mobile Call Termination (PDF, 503.3 KB)

On 13 September 2006, Ofcom published the statement entitled Mobile Call Termination. Ofcom has noticed errors in Section 2, Section 9, Annex 5 and Annex 16. These have been corrected in the document currently published on Ofcom’s website.

Corrections to the consultation entitled Mobile Call Termination – proposals for consultation – published 13 September 2006 (PDF, 18.1 KB)

Main documents

Mobile Call Termination - Market Review • PDF • 503.26 KB • 4 October 2023

Corrections to the consultation • PDF • 18.06 KB • 4 October 2023

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