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A decision by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission to cut the price of the Mobile Terminating Access Service from 1 January 2021 from 1.7 cents per minute to 1.19 cents per minute will bring down the wholesale price of mobile voice services.

New Zealand Mobile Access Termination Service (MTAS) services should remain regulated, according to the country’s competition enforcement agency, The Commerce Commission, which has just released the draft findings of its review into MTAS wholesale services.

Australia’s competition watchdog, the ACCC, has proposed that the country’s wholesale mobile voice services should continue to be regulated for a further five years.

The ACCC's preferred option for pricing the mobile terminating access service (MTAS) is a bill and keep (BAK) model, but none of the mobile network operators supports this.

The ACCC has initiated a public enquiry into the mobile terminating access service (MTAS) - the service provided by mobile network operators to terminate incoming calls to mobiles on their network - that could result in lower prices for calls to mobile services.

New Zealand's Commerce Commission has announced the long-awaited, and significantly reduced pricing for mobile terminating access services (MTAS) - the prices mobile operators are allowed to charge other telcos for terminating calls and text messages on their customers' mobile phones.