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Information and Communication Technologies Authority of the Republic of Turkey (ICTA)
Özgür Fatih [email protected]
NRA’S ROLE TO ENSURE COMPETITIVE MOBILE
MARKET-TURKISH CASE-
Outline
1. NRA’s Role: Regulations2. Current Situation in Mobile Market3. Conclusion
NRAs Role: Regulations
NRAs Role
Ensure Competitive Mobile Market
Off-net traffic should be increase
Call termination rate should be cost oriented
Retail margin between on-net and off-net price
should be narrowed.
Ensure Easy Switching Methods
Target to Increase Traffic Volume
REGULATIONS
1. Regulation: Upper Limit for Retail Mobile Tariffs
2. Regulation: Mobile Interconnection Regulations
3. Regulation: The Board Decisions dated 25.03.2009
and numbered 2009/DK-07/149 & 21.10.2010 and
2010/706.
4. Regulation: Mobile Number Portability
1. Upper Limit for Retail Mobile TariffsAim;Obviating pirce-based exploitative abuses as well as alleviation of network effect by preventing the GSM operators to set high margin between the off-net and on-net tariffs (Including PSTN calls)
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2. Mobile Interconnection Rates (euro cents)
1 Turkish Kurus = 0.47 €-Cent
Mobile call termination rates in EU
Euro cent
3. Specific Board Decisions (2009/DK-07/149 and 2010/706.)
Mechanism; This Board Decision requires the SMP operator in mobile access and call originitaion market (Turkcell) to ensure its accrued on-net tariffs are not below its off-net call termination fee.
Aim;Preventing SMP operator to abuse its position through network externality.
Specific Board Decisions (2009/DK-07/149)
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Specific Board Decisions (2009/DK-07/149)
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4. Mobile Number Portability Regulation
Aim;Ensuring a more competitive environment by increasing the flexibilies of the consumers in changing their operators.
Mobil number portability has been used since 9 November 2008.
Mobile Number Portability (MNP)
Current Situation in Mobile Market
Total call traffic volumes
16
Traffic volumes by call origination (%)
Off-net traffic volume
is increasing
Off-Net mobile volume (mil. minutes)
Countries MoU (minutes)
France 248,8
Irland 248,7
Turkey 239,4
UK 179,7
Spain 158,2
Italy 137,8
Portugal 129,8
Germany 110,4
Mobile Messaging Services
EFFECTS OF THE ACTIONS
The change in market shares of the mobile operators
According to revenue of the operators
Effectiveness should not be ignored as well as competition.
Cost oriented call termination rate has vital importance for
competition.
Hesitation of decreasing about tax revenue is in vain.
(Although call termination rate has been decreased almost
%300, off-net traffic volume has increased almost %400)
Effective MNP is also important tools for competition.
