Interconnection charges totaled €345 mln in 2007

Total interconnection charges for 2007 are 45.3 percent higher year-on-year, when charges amounted to €238 mln, due to sound growth on voice traffic in all phone networks.

The National Regulatory Authority for Communications and Information Technology (ANRCTI) published a report last week on the local telecom market in 2007. Business Standard calculated the value of total interconnection charges based on the total number of phone conversation minutes registered last year and interconnection tariffs set by ANRCTI for the main mobile service operators, Orange and Vodafone (€0.074 per minute), and for the main Romtelecom landline operator (€0.012 per minute). Tariffs do not include value added tax.

Of the total amount, mobile operators had the largest share, where the increase in voice traffic was 47.8 percent, up to 21.2 billion minutes.