AUSTRIA: MOBILKOM CRITICISED BY WATCHDOG

Article Abstract:

Austria's Telecom Control Commission (TCK) has told Mobilkom Austria, the mobile phone subsidiary of Telekom Austria, to cut interconnection fees charged for calls from fixed-line networks to mobile phones to Sch 1.90 per minute by 1 April 2000 . TCK holds that mobile phone operators have used revenue from the fees for marketing and for offering subsidised phones and cheap call rates. TCK's head Heinrich Otruba says that rather than Sch 1, a call within a mobile phone network should cost Sch 3,80. The prices of calls from fixed-line networks to the mobile networks of also Mobilkom's competitors are expected to fall as a result of the ruling. The case against Mobilkom was initiated by UTA .

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AUSTRIA: TA PLANNING TO CUT RATES

Article Abstract:

In 1999, Telekom Austria (TA) will not give its customers free calling minutes as a Christmas present. Instead, the company is planning to cut calling rates generally for March or April 2000. Further details were not yet disclosed. The dispute over interconnection fees is continuing with other telephone companies. max.mobil is to take legal action because TA pays only Sch 2.50, instead of the agreed Sch 2.70, for the connection of a phone call to its network. Also to the other mobile phone company One , TA pays only Sch 2.50 instead of Sch 2.70.

Telekom Austria

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AUSTRIA: RULING ON PHONE NUMBERS

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According to ruling by Austria's Telecom Control Commission (TCK), clients moving from one telephone service provider to another can keep their phone numbers if they stay within the same area code. Telephone service providers have to make this possible within two weeks. The telephone company losing the client may charge the company gaining the client a one-off fee of Sch 119.14.

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