7 Amendments of András GYÜRK related to 2011/0187(COD)
Amendment 82 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 21
Recital 21
(21) Mobile communications services are sold in bundles including both domestic and roaming services, which limits customer choice for roaming services. Such bundles reduce transparency concerning roaming services, since it is difficult to compare individual items within the bundles. Consequently, competition among operators on the basis of the roaming element in the mobile bundle is not yet apparent. Facilitating the availability of roaming as a stand-alone service would address structural problems by raising consumer awareness of roaming prices, allowing distinct consumer choice concerning roaming services and thus increasing competitive pressure on the demand side. This will therefore contribute to the smooth functioning of the internal market for European roaming services. The structural solutions listed in this document could provide a solution for the lack of competition on the roaming market. Prior to implementing any consumer friendly structural solution, the Commission should carry out careful consideration of these measures to ensure that the critical mass necessary to achieve fundamental changes in the market, is readily available, as these solutions should not only be attractive to several select users but rather to the majority of the market.
Amendment 106 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 41
Recital 41
(41) Providers of regulated roaming calls at the retail level should therefore be required to bill their customers on a per second basis for all calls subject to a Eurotariff, subject only to the possibility to apply a minimum initial charging period of no more than 30 seconds for calls made. This will enable operators to cover any reasonable set-up costs and to provide flexibility to compete by offering shorter minimum charging periods. However, n. No minimum initial charging period is justified in the case of Eurotariff calls received, as the underlying wholesale cost is charged on a per second basis and any specific set- up costs are already covered by mobile termination rates.
Amendment 107 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 65
Recital 65
(65) In order to ensure that regulatory obligations on wholesale and retail charges for voice, SMS and data roaming services are not maintained longer than necessary when the structural solutions are fully in place and competition is sufficiently developed in the roaming market, conditions should be set for non- application of maximum wholesale and retail charges already before the deadlines foreseen. Such conditions should be based on a significant difference between price caps and actual price levels. It is considered that a significant difference will be reached if prices have on averageverywhere in the Union reached 75% of the price cap. For wholesale price caps the 75% criterion shall be based on the unbalanced traffic between operators that do not belong to the same group. In order to limit distortions between Member States, tThe 75% criterion for retail price caps shall be calculated by averaging at the Union level the national averages for each roaming service separately (voice, SMS or data).
Amendment 111 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 69
Recital 69
(69) Moreover, measures should be introduced to improve the transparency of retail prices for data roaming services, in particular to eliminate the problem of ‘bill shock’ which constitutes a barrier to the smooth functioning of the internal market, and to provide roaming customers with the tools they need to monitor and control their expenditure on data roaming services. Equally, there should be no obstacles to the emergence of applications or technologies which can be a substitute for, or alternative to, roaming services, such as WiFi, rather, national regulatory authorities, working together with stakeholders, should encourage the development of WiFi hotspots, with adequate information provided for customers, as a cheap or free alternative to data roaming. Consumers should be provided with this information, thereby allowing them to make an informed choice.
Amendment 142 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1
Article 3 – paragraph 1
1. Mobile network operators shall meet all reasonable requests for wholesale roaming access, including those from mobile virtual network operators and resellersnot restrict wholesale roaming access to their networks, unless the operator demonstrates that a restriction is reasonable. Rules on regulated wholesale roaming tariffs laid down in Articles 6, 8 and 11 shall apply for the provision of wholesale roaming access.
Amendment 225 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 2
Article 6 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 2
The average wholesale charge referred to in paragraph 1 shall be calculated by dividing the total wholesale roaming revenue received by the total number of wholesale roaming minutes actually used for the provision of wholesale roaming calls within the Union by the relevant operator over the relevant period, aggregated on a per second basis adjusted to take account of the possibility for the operator of the visited network to apply an initial minimum charging period not exceeding 30 seconds.
Amendment 241 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 4
Article 7 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 4