Icasa has proposed slashing mobile and fixed call termination rates by as much as 83% over the next 15 months.
Icasa has proposed slashing mobile call termination rates – the fees operators charge each other to carry calls between their networks – by more than half by next year.
Smaller players Telkom and Cell C will no longer enjoy “asymmetry” with bigger rivals Vodacom and MTN from next year, meaning that from that date they won’t receive a higher rand amount for incoming wholesale calls from other networks than outgoing calls. The proposed cuts to fixed-line termination rates is even more aggressive: from 6c/minute now, Icasa wants these reduced to 4c from 1 July 2024 and to just 1c from 1 July 2025 – a cut of 83% in just 15 months.
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