The Commission for Communications Regulation and its UK counterpart, Ofcom, have formed a new working group to find solutions to problems which affect telecommunications users north and south of the border.
The joint working group will meet regularly over the next few months. It will discuss with mobile network and fixed telephony operators a way forward which is in the best interests of consumers and businesses in both parts of the island and which also maintains the competitiveness of the industry.
'We hope that our joint endeavours will find solutions which will contribute to resolving some long standing cross border telecoms issues, including international roaming,' commented ComReg Chairman John Doherty.
'In his policy directions issued in March, the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources, specifically highlighted the issue of roaming as one which impacts particularly on people living in the border regions,' he added.
