Measuring the Information Society 2011 Annex Box 2.1: Rules applied to collect tariffs for the 2010 mobile-cellular sub-basket 1. The OECD 2009 mobile basket for the “30 calls per month basket” is used as a basis for the ITU data collection on mobile-cellular prepaid tariffs. 2. Tariffs are based on the tariffs published by the dominant operator, in terms of the number of subscriptions/market share. 3. If there are several prepaid plans, the plan that is chosen is the one that comes closest to the 30 calls and 100 sms included. 4. Special offers and plans with limited availability (for example those reserved for a limited number of customers) cannot be used. 5. If subscribers can choose “favourite” numbers (for family, friends, etc.) with a special tariff, this special tariff cannot be taken into consideration (irrespective of the quantity of numbers). 6. If prices vary between minutes (1st minute = price A, 2nd minute = price B, 3rd minute = price C), the sum of the different prices will be divided by the number of different prices (for example: price per minute=(A+B+C)/3). 6.1. If only the first minute is different, calculate the average price per minute based on 3 minutes. 6.2. If prices vary beyond 3 minutes, calculate the average price per minute based on 3 minutes. 7. If there is a connection cost per call, then this is taken into consideration in the final formula of the mobile-cellular basket, based on 30 calls. 8. If free minutes/calls/sms are included in the connection fee, then these are taken into consideration and deducted from the number of calls/minutes/sms in the formula that is used to calculate the price basket. 9. If there are different prices for an sms (off-peak vs peak), then the average of both is used. 10. If there are different off-peak tariffs, then the one that is the cheapest before midnight is used. 11. If the only off-peak period is after midnight, then this is not used. Instead, the peak price is applied. 12. If there are different peak tariffs, the most expensive one during daytime is applied. 13. If there are different weekend tariffs, the price that applies Sundays during daytime applies (or the equivalent day in countries where weekends are not on Sundays). 14. If there is no weekend price, the average peak and off-peak price that is valid during the week applies. 15. When the customer can chose between different connection charges that include different amounts of units/minutes, and the price per minute/unit decreases the higher the connection charge, the ‘cheapest’ refill card is used. If different connection charges exist depending on the validity period, the validity period for 30 days (or closest to 30 days) applies. 16. If calls are charged by call (and not by minute), the mobile-cellular sub-basket formula will be calculated based on 30 calls. 17. Tariffs include taxes. -3 L% %%3 , ( ( ( ( ( $ +$ % ( ( $%( ( $ -= ,%>)( ( \" (\"+ $ ( !'5 %3 , (( ($ ) $ , ( =.>!'5 %3 =0, # 7$ +> =, # 0$ +>, ( # ( -(\"( ) The fixed-broadband sub-basket ( +L # + \"+# ( , (( ( \" $ # # # $$ ) +, ( ( $ $ ( B$ +\" \" % + B ( ( # ( +$ $ ) 145