Conversations on mobilke can rise in price
The state operator of a fixed-line telephony "Ukrtelecom" is intended to increase twice the rate interkonnekta (an intercamera payment which is raised for fulfilment of calls from a network of one company in a network another), the vice-president of board concerning marketing and sale of services of "Ukrtelecom" has informed Igor Sirotenko.
In this connection operators predict a rise in price of tariffs for subscribers, writes "Business".
According to Sirotenko, now the input in te fixed network costs 25 copecks for one minute of conversation. Mobile operators take for the same service twice the big sum — 50 copecks.
Also Sirotenko has noticed, that earlier low rate interkonnekta for a state company was established by the National commission concerning communication regulation (NKRS).
«It was, when« the Ukrtelecom »had monopoly in the domestic long distance communication market. Today our company is not a monopolist, therefore interkonnekta we will change the rate. We wish to make its symmetric», — he has explained.
According to the Ukrainian legislation, calculations between operators are not regulated by the state, and the rate interkonnekta grows out dogo-vorennosti between operators.
In the meantime mobile operators already have expressed concern such increase.
Yesterday the general director of "the Ukrainian radio systems» (the trade mark "Biline") Alexander Barinov, not naming a name of the companies, has informed, that «at the moment a part of operators attempts of change of rates interkonnekta towards increase become. We already receive the missive». As he said, increase of rates by operators can lead to that «the raised rates interkonnekta should be levelled increase of tariffs».
Reception of the letter from "Ukrtelecom" have confirmed and in company "Astelit" (the trade mark life:)). Thus experts assert, that "Ukrtelecom" is an informal regulator of the market of a mobile communication. The access rate to its network which the state company establishes for the largest mobile operators of MTS and «Kievstar», is base for vzaimoraschetov with other operators. Therefore increase by "Ukrtelecom" of the tariffs, according to participants of the market, can lead to a domino effect when other companies will start to raise corresponding tariffs.
According to Barinov solve a problem the recognition of each operator a monopolist in the access market to own network that would lead to the state control over rates interkonnekta could.
«But now the state regulator (NKRS) has no levers of influence on the given situation, — the general director of" the Ukrainian radio systems »speaks. — We carry on negotiations with Antimonopoly committee on this occasion, however they refer to other, more important problems».
Mobile operators are not going to reconsider yet the rates interkonnekta. So, in «Kievstare» have informed, that for today this company does not see the objective market bases for any changes in existing system vzaimoraschetov.
The same speak and in "MTS-Ukraine".
«We did not leave to the partners in the market with references about revision of rates, — have informed in the company press-service. — from our point of view, the rate which are applied today in the market, have the right to existence. If they were unreasonable or unacceptable for operators they simply would not work».
