| Maltacom, Melita and Vodafone complain about MCA's spending
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| Written by HiVoltage |
Thursday, 05 October 2006
Yesterday's edition of the Business Today has an article in which the big players in the local telecommunications field are complaining about the excessive amount of money MCA (the local telecoms regulator) is spending. For those who are not aware, according to an EU recommendation, regulators across Europe are supposed to charge only the amount of money that needs to be spent in administrative fees. Therfore, no regulator should be making any profit from the cost of licenses and other charges that telecom operators pay. Maltacom, Melita, and Vodafone have sent a letter to competitiveness minister Censu Galea and MCA chairman Joseph V. Tabone complaining about the current situation. The operators claim that the money MCA is spending has been needlessly increasing lately, and it is the operators themselves who have to pay for MCA's lack of good management. Apart from that, the companies in question are also claiming that the license fees and other charges they are paying are more than is required to cover the expenses incurred by MCA to run its offices.
In their complaint, the operators say that "authorisation fees are 25 times those paid by a UK operator and in the
case of spectrum fees, Vodafone and Go Mobile pay fees 10 times higher
than in the UK." The aim of their complaint is to urge the government to address MCA's "unlimited latitudes to incur expenditure just because the operators
will be paying for it."
For the complete article, click here.
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