4 Amendments of Andreas SCHWAB related to 2008/0187(COD)
Amendment 30 #
Proposal for a regulation – amending act
Recital 37
Recital 37
(37) Moreover, tThe persistence of high wholesale charges for data roaming services is primarily attributable to the high and complex wholesale prices charged by mobile telephony groups that offer services in a large number of Member States and which have correspondingly strong bargaining power in the roaming wholesale markets. They are also attributable to high wholesale prices charged by operators of non-preferred networks. Such charges are caused by traffic steering limitations which leave operators with no incentive to reduce their standard wholesale prices unilaterally since the traffic will be received irrespective of the price charged. This results in an extreme variation in wholesale costs. In some cases the wholesale data roaming prices applicable to non-preferred networks are thirty times higher than those applied to the preferred network. These excessively high wholesale charges for data roaming services lead to appreciable distortions of competitive conditions between mobile operators within the Community which undermine the smooth functioning of the internal market. TheyHigh and complex wholesale charges also constrain the ability of home providers to predict their wholesale costs and therefore to provide their customers with transparent and competitive retail pricing packages. In view of the limitations on the ability of national regulatory authorities to tackle these problems effectively at national level, a wholesale price limit on data roaming services should apply. The wholesale price limit should be set at a safeguard level well above the lowest wholesale prices currently avthat gives a sustailnable in the market, to enhancempetus to competitive conditions and permits the better functioning of the internal market for the benefit of consumers.
Amendment 109 #
Proposal for a regulation – amending act
Article 1 – point 11
Article 1 – point 11
Regulation (EC) No. 717/2007/EC
Article 6a – paragraph 4 – point (a)
Article 6a – paragraph 4 – point (a)
(a) The average wholesale charge that the operator of a visited network may levy from the operator of a roaming customer's home network for the provision of regulated data roaming services by means of that visited network shall not exceed a safeguard limit of EUR 1.000.00025 per kilobyte (corresponding to EUR 0.25 per megabyte ) of data transmitted.
Amendment 114 #
Proposal for a regulation – amending act
Article 1 – point 11
Article 1 – point 11
Regulation (EC) No. 717/2007/EC
Article 6a – paragraph 4 – point (b)
Article 6a – paragraph 4 – point (b)
(b) This average wholesale charge shall apply between any pair of operators and shall be calculated ovper a twelve month period or any such shorter period as may remain before the expiry of this Regulatdata session.
Amendment 115 #
Proposal for a regulation – amending act
Article 1 – point 11
Article 1 – point 11
Regulation (EC) No. 717/2007/EC
Article 6a – paragraph 4 – point (c)
Article 6a – paragraph 4 – point (c)
(c) The average wholesale charge referred to in point a shall be calculated by dividing the total wholesale revenue received by the operator of the visited network from each operator of a home network for the provision of regulated data roaming services in the relevant period by the total number of megakilobytes of data consumed by the provision of those services within that period.