article_snippet: Mobile phone bills should begin to fall after a watchdog ordered telecoms companies to slash the cost of calling another network.
article_snippet: However, Ofcom said yesterday that operators must slash operators by more than 40 per cent over the next two years.
article_snippet: However, yesterday the network operators expressed disappointment over Ofcom's decision to cut the network operators further, and issued a veiled threat the network operators could increase other charges to make up for the reduction.
article_snippet: Operators would face a choice to either allow the standards of Operators network and customer services to slip, or to recoup the money Operators have lost by increasing charges elsewhere.
article_snippet: The cost of handling calls from other operators comes at a cost and needs to be recovered from other operators.'
article_snippet: Mobile operators, however, said Mobile operators were pleased that Ofcom has given Mobile operators two years to reduce The charges, as Mobile operators had feared Mobile operators would have to slash Mobile operators overnight.
article_snippet: David Hickson, of the consumer campaign group, Fair Telecoms, predicted that Ofcom would continue slashing the charges for cross-network calls. '
article_snippet: Mr Howett added that Ofcom would keep pressure on mobile companies to pass as much of the savings as possible to customers.
highlights_snippet: Ofcom ordered telecoms companies to cut cost of calling another network .
  