Thursday 6 May 2010

Dave Breith, CEO of O-bit Telecom, talks about the recent Mobile Interconnect Changes called “Flip Flopping”

Is it me or has everyone just had all they can take with the mobile operators changing their tariffs every single Month? How does a Fixed Line Company know where they stand from Month to Month and how does the End User know what surprises they’ll be getting with each new bill?

The important question is: “Do Ofcom and the Mobile Networks think we can change our tariffs to End Users every single Month, just to allow the Mobile Networks to chop and change as they see fit just to line their own pockets?” Even worse than this, the Mobile Networks are using the rate increases to sell against Fixed Resellers, I had a call from o2 a couple of weeks ago stating the increases in Mobile Fixed line charges were increasing and that if I switched my fixed line telecoms to o2 they would give me calls to o2 for free!!!!!! As you can imagine I was very impressed.

The biggest joke of all is Ofcom’s attitude toward this situation in allowing it to continue. I fully understand that Ofcom have guidelines on these issues but seeing as this is a serious matter I think it is not unreasonable to ask them to act fast as delays are only giving the Mobile Networks unfair competition within fixed line.

Can anyone think of a logical reason why Ofcom continue to allow this to happen and not act fast on this?