Project Manager: Mike Galvin
Project Champion: Neil Buckley
Legal adviser: Lucy Byers
Economic adviser: Suzanne Moroney

Description and Objectives

Fixed geographic call termination is the interconnection service that delivers an incoming call from the local exchange to the end-user (retail customer). Fixed geographic call termination is generally considered to be a 'bottleneck' because the originating operator conveying the call to the local exchange has to pass the call to the terminating operator to terminate the call, i.e. it has no choice but to deliver it to that point and that terminating operator. This review needs to consider whether, if call termination remains a 'bottleneck', the current remedies (including charge controls on BT) remain a proportionate response.

Related Draft EU Markets

Wholesale:

• Call termination on individual public telephone networks provided at a fixed location.

Publications

17 March 2003:
Review of fixed geographic call termination markets - consultation.

26 August 2003:
Review of fixed geographic call termination markets, Proposals for the identification and analysis of markets, determination of market power and setting of SMP conditions, Explanatory Statement and Notification.

End of October 2003:
Publication of Statement.