Investor Releases
Regulator publishes resolutions on Magyar Telekom's reference offers
Budapest, March 27, 2009
Magyar Telekom (Reuters: NYSE: MTA.N, BÉT: MTEL.BU and Bloomberg: NYSE: MTA US, BÉT: MTELEKOM HB), the leading Hungarian telecommunications service provider today announced that the Board of the Hungarian National Regulatory Authority (NRA) has published its resolutions concerning the new interconnection, unbundling and local bitstream access reference offers applicable from April 1, 2009.
The per minute
interconnection rates published by the NRA changed only slightly (by less than
1%) compared to the current rates. The table below sets out the rates
applicable from April 1, 2009 (excluding VAT):
IC traffic services (HUF/min) | Peak | Off peak |
Local origination fee | 1.39 | 0.82 |
Regional origination fee | 1.75 | 1.03 |
National origination fee | 1.90 | 1.11 |
Local termination fee | 1.39 | 0.82 |
Regional termination fee | 1.75 | 1.03 |
National termination fee | 1.90 | 1.11 |
The table below sets
out the new and current reference unbundling and local bitstream access reference offer
monthly fees (excluding VAT):
Monthly fees (HUF/month) | New fees | Current fees |
Local loop unbundling monthly fee | 1,883 | 1,922 |
Partial local loop unbundling monthly fee | 412 | 664 |
Local bitstream access monthly fee | 1,469 | 1,591 |
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