ECN attended the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Communications (PPCC) meeting on interconnection rates and was very impressed by the political will of Parliament to urgently deal with the issue of interconnection rates charged by Vodcaom, MTN and Cell C that are amongst the highest in the world. It is clear that high interconnection rates serve […]
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SA consumers, used to high prices for telecommunications, must be rubbing their hands in glee. The cost of broadband and voice telephony has begun falling, in some cases dramatically, as competition finally begins to take effect. At the weekend, cellphone giant Vodacom announced it was effectively cutting its peak-time prepaid rates by as much as […]
Studies show that cellular interconnection costs closer to 25c than the current 89c/77c per minute. Peak Mobile Termination Rates (MTR) – aka interconnect rates – were dropped from the previous R1.25 per minute to 89c per minute in March after an agreement was reached between the cellular operators and ICASA. This interconnect rate cut resulted […]