Albania’s two leading mobile operators ordered to switch back to 30-day pre-paid bundles

TIRANA, April 25 – Albania’s electronic communications watchdog has ordered the country’s mobile operators to switch back to 30-day pre-paid standard bundles after cutting the packages to 28 days for the past couple of years, increasing consumer costs in practices not applied in regional countries. Under a decision made this week, the country’s electronic communications authority, AKEP, orders the two leading mobile operators, UK-based Vodafone Albania and German-Greek Telekom Albania, to offer 30-day monthly bundles starting June 2018 after identifying increased costs through the use of ‘abusive and anti-competitive tariffs.” The decision has an impact on about 3.2 million pre-paid…