accounting rate - the rate per traffic unit agreed between the Administrations for a given relation that is used for the establishment of international accounts
... Portugal stresses a possible impact of the immediate implementation of direct international interconnection of the international fixed voice-telephony traffic, i.e. on a part of the revenues which the Commission considers necessary for the financing of the USO. It argues that the current international mobile tariffs of Esc 163 per minute could be lowered to Esc 100 (11) as regards calls to the rest of Europe. ... This assumption is based on the average of the 'accounting rates shares` charged by British Telecom for handling international traffic, i.e. Esc 35 per minute. If the mobile operator were to transfer 75 % of the saving to the final consumer the end-user price would be Esc 115 per minute (letter of 30 July 1996, p. 9).
