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OPTA encourages price reductions for calls from landline to mobile phones
OPTA has announced a number of measures after noting that the charges for calls from fixed to mobile phones are excessively high. OPTA is planning to designate KPN and Libertel as telecommunications providers with significant market power in the mobile … -
No uniform surcharge for calling a foreign mobile network
OPTA will not allow KPN to introduce a uniform surcharge over and above the charge levied for calling from a fixed phone to a foreign mobile network. OPTA is of the opinion that such a tax surcharge must reflect the actual costs involved. This surcharge … -
KPN tells OPTA that capacity shortfall has been resolved
OPTA has been told by KPN that the capacity shortfall plaguing the latter’s network has been resolved. KPN says that it again has enough interconnections to supply to its competitors. OPTA now wants to hear from the telecommunications companies, whether … -
NMa 1998 Annual Report
This is the very first Annual Report of the Netherlands Competition Authority. It was created on 1 January 1998, when the Dutch Competition Act came into force. … … -
Most consumers continue to rely on KPN for local telephone services for the time being
No more than one quarter of Dutch telephone users will be able to choose from various telecommunications companies for local calls within two years. The rest will remain tied to KPN for the time being. This is revealed in a study conducted by OPTA. The … -
OPTA believes that the reduction of KPN’s landline-to-mobile call tariff does not go far enough yet
OPTA believes that the reduction of its tariff for landline calls to mobile phones within the Netherlands, which KPN has announced, does not go far enough. Today KPN announced that this tariff would be reduced from 90 cents to 75 cents per minute. OPTA … -
OPTA imposes lower interconnection tariffs: Ruling in six interconnection disputes
KPN is required to charge six telecommunications companies, which registered a dispute with OPTA, those interconnection tariffs which were stipulated in the so-called EDC decision of 1 July 1998. Until now KPN has been charging them too much. KPN is … -
OPTA threatens to impose penalties for failure to provide information about number portability and to comply with obligations concerning the latter
OPTA, the regulatory authority for the postal and telecommunications markets, has notified Intercity Mobile Communications, KPN Telecom and Talkline Benelux that it intends to proceed with the imposition of penalties, because they have failed to comply … -
OPTA on the cable sector: Put an end to cross-subsidies
Cable television companies may not pass on any shortfall, which they sustain on their own range of programmes, to competing programme providers. The cross-subsidisation of the operations of cable companies as suppliers of infrastructure and as providers … -
KPN must put an end to capacity shortfalls: Its policy is undermining the development of competition in the telecommunications market
KPN must comply with its duty to supply interconnection capacity to its competitors by no later than 1 July. Because of a capacity shortfall in KPN’s network, its competitors’ subscribers frequently have to contend with an engaged signal. This threatens …