CRC received the comments on the notification texts; it is imminent to reflect them and to take decisions for their enforcement.

 

EC approved the first 3 market analyses, notified by the Communications Regulation Commission at the end of the last month.

 

The Commission coordinated the respective drafts of market analyses: call origination on the public telephone network provided at a fixed location; call termination on individual public telephone networks provided at a fixed location and (voice) call termination on individual mobile networks.

 

The market analysis for call origination on the public telephone network is approved without any note and comment.

 

In regard with the other two markets the EC addresses the following recommendations: more rapid approach of traffic termination rates in mobile and fixed networks to the average ones in the EU; application of symmetrical traffic termination rates from fixed to mobile network and from mobile to mobile network, as well as from fixed to fixed and from mobile to fixed network immediately after enforcement of the market analyses instead of the proposed date of July 1, 2009.

 

The CRC is going to discuss and reflect the recommendations that have been made and then it will adopt final decisions on the market analyses and impose the relevant remedies.

 

These are the first notified analyses with which in practice the Bulgarian Regulator will apply the new instruments for intervention on the market and for providing effective competition, that are valid within the EU.

 

For less than a year, the CRC analyzed 6 retail markets and 5 wholesale markets. The remaining markets are in a public consultation procedure and finalization of the drafts for notification before the EC.