Everything Everywhere, the Orange and T-Mobile partnership, has revealed that Ofcom's decision to introduce a new lower cap on the rate networks can charge landline operators and rival mobile phone companies to connect calls to mobile phones may have an effect on pay-as-you-go customers.
Ofcom's new ruling means that over the next four years, and starting 1 April, there will be a significant reduction in mobile termination rates ? something that will affect the big four mobile operators: 3UK, O2, Everything Everywhere and Vodafone.
Vulnerable customers
Everything Everywhere contacted TechRadar about the new ruling and said: "We are disappointed with Ofcom's decision. Our concerns focus on the impact of the decision to our vulnerable pay-as-you-go customers.
"By applying pure LRIC methodology in setting call termination rates going forward, Ofcom has suggested we recover a larger share of our costs from retail charges. This may force us to change the pay-as-you-go model as we know it as a large number of these customers will now become uneconomical ? making the way our consumers currently buy, use and enjoy their mobiles radically different going forward."
Always somebody to foot the loss the cheeky c*nts out1
