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Information and Communication Technologies Authority of the Republic of Turkey (ICTA)

Information and Communication Technologies Authority of the Republic of Turkey (ICTA). NRA’S ROLE TO ENSURE COMPETITIVE MOBILE MARKET -TURKISH CASE-. Özgür Fatih AKPINAR ofakpinar @ btk .gov.tr. Outline. 1. NRA’s Role: Regulations 2. Current Situation in Mobile Market 3. Conclusion.

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Information and Communication Technologies Authority of the Republic of Turkey (ICTA)

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  1. Information and Communication Technologies Authority of the Republic of Turkey (ICTA) NRA’S ROLE TO ENSURE COMPETITIVE MOBILE MARKET -TURKISH CASE- Özgür Fatih AKPINAR ofakpinar@btk.gov.tr

  2. Outline 1. NRA’s Role: Regulations 2. Current Situation in Mobile Market 3. Conclusion

  3. NRAs Role: Regulations

  4. NRAs Role • Ensure Competitive Mobile Market • Off-net traffic should be increase • Call termination rate should be cost oriented • Retail margin between on-net and off-net price should be narrowed. • Ensure Easy Switching Methods • Target to Increase Traffic Volume

  5. REGULATIONS • 1. Regulation:Upper Limit forRetail Mobile Tariffs • 2. Regulation:Mobile Interconnection Regulations • 3. Regulation:The Board Decisions dated 25.03.2009 and numbered 2009/DK-07/149 & 21.10.2010 and 2010/706. • 4. Regulation:Mobile Number Portability

  6. 1. Upper Limit for Retail Mobile Tariffs Aim; Obviating pirce-based exploitative abuses as well as alleviation of network effect by preventing the GSM operators to set high margin between the off-net and on-net tariffs (Including PSTN calls) 6

  7. 2. Mobile Interconnection Rates (eurocents) 1 Turkish Kurus = 0.47 €-Cent

  8. Mobile callterminationrates in EU Euro cent

  9. 3. Specific Board Decisions(2009/DK-07/149and 2010/706.) Mechanism; This Board Decision requires the SMP operator in mobile access and call originitaion market (Turkcell) to ensure its accrued on-net tariffs are not below its off-net call termination fee. Aim; Preventing SMP operator to abuse its position through network externality.

  10. Specific Board Decisions(2009/DK-07/149) 10

  11. Specific Board Decisions(2009/DK-07/149) 11

  12. 4. Mobile Number PortabilityRegulation Aim; Ensuring a more competitive environment by increasing the flexibilies of the consumers in changing their operators. Mobil number portability has been used since 9 November 2008.

  13. Mobile Number Portability (MNP)

  14. Current Situation in Mobile Market

  15. Total call trafficvolumes

  16. Trafficvolumesbycallorigination (%) 16

  17. Off-net traffic volume is increasing

  18. Off-Net mobile volume (mil. minutes)

  19. Mobile RegulationsMoU, 2003-2011

  20. Mobile Usage (Average minutes usage by subscribers

  21. Mobile RegulationsAverageretailcalltariffs, 2003-2010

  22. Mobile Messaging Services

  23. EFFECTS OF THE ACTIONS The change in market shares of the mobile operators According to revenue of the operators

  24. Conclusion: • Effectiveness should not be ignored as well as competition. • Cost oriented call termination rate has vital importance for competition. • Hesitation of decreasing about tax revenue is in vain. • (Although call termination rate has been decreased almost %300, off-net traffic volume has increased almost %400) • Effective MNP is also important tools for competition.

  25. Thank you Özgür Fatih AKPINAR ofakpinar@btk.gov.tr

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