Traduction de «Co-operative wholesale society » (Anglais → Français) :

The credit union group includes the following companies: Astra Credit Union, which is based in Winnipeg; Capital City Savings & Credit Union of Edmonton; Credit Union Atlantic, which is based in Halifax; Delta Credit Union, which is located here in the Lower Mainland of B.C.; Grand Forks, which we have already introduced; Gulf & Fraser Fishermen's Credit Union, again in the Lower Mainland of B.C.; Metro Credit Union from Toronto; my credit union, which operates in the north coastal region of B.C.; Richmond Savings Credit Union from the Lower Mainland; Sherwood Credit Union from Regina; The Civil Service Co-operative Credit Society Limi ...[+++]ted, headquartered in Ottawa, but with membership throughout the country; Vancouver City Savings; and Citizens Bank.

The Commission may verify the information received with economic operators, civil society actors, beneficiary country parliaments and the beneficiary country concerned".

3. The average wholesale charge referred to in paragraph 1 shall be calculated by dividing the total wholesale roaming revenue received by the total number of wholesale roaming minutes actually used for the provision of wholesale roaming calls within the Union by the relevant operator over the relevant period, aggregated on a per second basis adjusted to take account of the possibility for the operator of the visited network to apply an initial minimum charging period not exceeding 30 seconds.

The second is a measure where the consumer can fix, together with his operator, a ceiling over which he does not want to pay any more so that communications are then cut; and the third is because we have seen that the whole problem here comes from highly overpriced wholesale costs which one operator imposes on another. That is why we propose a wholesale cap at one euro per megabyte, hoping that normal price structures can then be developed and offered to consumers.

The European Regulators Group5 noted at its plenary meeting in May 2005 (inter alia) that retail charges were very high without clear justification; that this appeared to result both from high wholesale charges levied by the foreign host network operator and also, in many cases, from high retail mark-ups charged by the customer’s own network operator; that reductions in wholesale charges were often not passed through to the retail customer; and that there were strong linkages between the markets in the different Member States.

Having said that, Commissioner, I feel that, precisely on this type of subject, working in conjunction with organisations which operate in society or with non-governmental organisations is a key factor, for these organisations usually have greater room for manoeuvre, and are able to be bolder and uphold positions which are, so to speak, less influenced by other considerations or interests, in themselves legitimate but all too often liable to lead governments and institutions to compromise and assume less forthright positions.