BT to cut cost of calls to mobiles
BT is set to slash the cost of calls from landlines to mobile phones from next weekend and will call on its rivals to follow suit.
It's good to talk: BT television advert featuring actor Kris Marshall
Britain's biggest phone company is set to announce tomorrow that it is passing on savings made from the reduction in mobile termination rates demanded by regulator Ofcom in March.
These rates are charged by networks if calls are made from a different network.
BT said that from Saturday it would charge 11.3p a minute, down from the current 13p, for daytime calls to all major mobile networks.
It will call on rivals to pass on the savings to customers too. Virgin, for instance, charges up to 31.6p a minute for daytime calls to 3 and 19.35p a minute for calls to O2, Orange, T-Mobile and Vodafone.
Mobile termination rates can make up most of the cost of a call.
Ofcom aims to cut these rates, which vary according to the length of the call, over the next four years from 4.3p to 0.5p a minute.
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