A Primer on Mobile Termination Rates

A Primer on Mobile Termination Rates provides regulators, policy makers, operators, researchers and others with an overview of mobile termination rate (MTR) concepts.

"By way of background, a report published in January 2006 by a US telecommunications consulting group noted that while mobile telephone subscribers surpassed fixed line subscribers globally in 2002, mobile usage significantly lagged fixed line usage. It said that "the main reason is the high price of mobile calls, which are often caused by high mobile termination rates (MTRs, the cost per minute of terminating a call on a mobile network)" and concluded that "there is compelling evidence that mobile users in countries with low termination rates or that charge the receiving party for the call spend more time talking on their phones"."- UK Parliament, Select Committee on European Scrutiny