Bulgaria Sees Cheaper Fixed-Line-to-Mobile Calls

Business | January 7, 2008, Monday // 00:00

he wholesale prices of calls from fixed lines to mobiles in Bulgaria will go down by 10% or BGN 0,03-0,04 as of February 1, the telecoms watchdog announced on Monday.

The Communications Regulation Commission (CRC) took the decision on Sunday following a string of meetings with representatives of the country's three mobile operators - Mtel, Globul and Vivatel. The changes are expected to make a difference to the customers' fixed-line telecom bills.

Phoning a mobile operator from a fixed line currently is charged BGN 0,38.1 for calls in peak hours and BGN 0,36.6 for off-peak calls. The prices go down to BGN 0,35 and BGN 0, 32.5 respectively as of the beginning of February.

The price fall is the first stage of a gradual transition to lower prices of calls from fixed to mobile lines or the so-called termination rates, levied by one operator on another, when a customer of one network calls a mobile phone on another network.

The process is scheduled to wrap up at the end of 2009.
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