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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lkdood" data-source="post: 7921341" data-attributes="member: 92282">Sri Lanka's Bharti Airtel unit has taken floor prices  imposed by the regulator to court complaining that it helps the market  leader and hurts the consumer, a media report said.     Bharti  Airtel Lanka, has petitioned Sri Lanka's supreme court, The Island  newspaper said Saturday. The court has to agree to hear the case for it  to proceed.   Sri Lanka's telecom regulatory imposed floor tariffs of two rupees per  minute on mobile operators last week and also set interconnection  charges requiring originating networks to pay the terminating operator,  ending a 'sender keeps all' regime.  The Island said Airtel had alleged in its pleadings that it had filed  tariff plans below the floor price which the regulator has not approved  while competitors had been allowed similar packages.  The regulator allowed existing tariff plans, which were designed during a  price war, to continue.  Airtel had asked that any floor price imposed should be applied to all  tariff   Airtel had pleaded that regulator's decision "prevented a level playing  field and was arbitrary, and/or capricious, and/or irrational, violative  of the Constitution and of natural justice," the newspaper said.                                  Airtel  has asked for floor prices not to be imposed or any floor price imposed  should be strictly adhered to include all tariff plans, whether imposed  before or after the effective date of the floor price.  Meanwhile The  Sunday Island quoted telecom regulator Anusha  Pelpita as saying that the sector had lost 15 billion rupees and the  floor prices will be reviewed by year-end.  "We will look into the performance of the industry (in terms of  profitability) and decide whether to increase or reduce these rates,"  the newspaper quoted Pelpita as saying.LBO</blockquote>

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