Investor Releases
NRA on Hungarian Mobile Termination Fees
Budapest, June 30, 2006
Magyar Telekom (Reuters: NYSE: MTA.N, BSE: MTEL.BU and Bloomberg: NYSE: MTA, BSE: MTELEKOM HB), the leading Hungarian telecommunications service provider announces that the Board of the Hungarian National Regulatory Authority (NRA) has published its draft resolution regarding the Hungarian mobile voice termination fees.
Based on the NRA draft resolution published on the www.nhh.hu website, the proposed reduction to the average mobile voice termination fee for Magyar Telekom/T-Mobile for the next three years is 14.74% per annum.
NRA proposes the following mobile voice termination fees (net of VAT):
Current fees | Until end-2007 | In 2008 | From 2009 | |
27.17 HUF/min | Magyar Telekom/T-Mobile | 23.17 HUF/min | 19.75 HUF/min | 16.84 HUF/min |
29.44 HUF/min | Pannon | 24.44 HUF/min | 20.29 HUF/min | 16.84 HUF/min |
32.61 HUF/min | Vodafone | 26.16 HUF/min | 20.99 HUF/min | 16.84 HUF/min |
The new fees could be applicable from early 2007. Magyar Telekom has not yet had the opportunity to evaluate this draft resolution in detail.
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