Ms. Viviane Reding has become one of the most visible members of European Commission, mostly thanks to her resolve to change mobile telecommunication sector. If we summarized her steps, we would find various concrete proposals – from opening discussion about proposal on roaming regulation (October 2005), via identifying roaming SMS prices as too expensive (June 2007) or convincing of too high sum on invoices because of roaming scoring system based on minutes (January 2008), and at the end to marking “mobile termination rates” as too high and suggesting national regulator bodies to regulate them down (June 2008).

Some of her initiatives found response in daily life, e.g. well-know roaming regulation legislative. Indeed, her steps look like success story. Many users of mobile phones welcomed decreased roaming fees. But, will they do the same, if firms like T-Mobile, Vodafone, Telefonica, Orange and others will start to ask money for received calls in their own networks?

As an ordinary customer I see it very clear. Ms. Reding has been asking mobile operators to abandon the part of their incomes and subsequent net yield (in order to save some money of ours). Maybe the Commission feels strong enough and there are no doubts that it has gained much authority for example via partial subordination of company like Microsoft. But I also keep on mind that mobile operators don’t work like a charity, so they do not provide services for someone’s wonderful eyes. Big companies want to earn big money. If they once accepted regulation in area of roaming fees, it doesn’t mean they will always took other strict measures in a calm manner, e.g. in matter of termination rates.

Voice of telecommunication companies becomes stronger, step by step. Ms. Reding, I would like to ask you: Stop regulating, please! It is not in interest of any European to pay for received calls in home networks. You said that you would accept it, as American model does. But, maybe because of paying for incoming calls, the pager is much more popular between Americans. We don’t need to be similar to them in everything. Thanks.