Bulgarian consumers, the poorest in the EU, often carry several mobile phones with subscriptions to different providers because their country has the highest interconnection fees in Europe for making calls from one network operator to another, a European Commission paper reveals.

“As a result of high mobile termination rates and for reasons of business strategy, [Bulgarian] consumers keep more than one mobile subscription in parallel,” reads a Commission paper dated 25 May, entitled ‘15th Progress Report on the Single European Electronic Communications Market’.

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