Press Release

Johannesburg, 19 August 2009 – The Independent Communications Authority of SA (ICASA) does not need a market study on interconnect to drop prices, says local telecommunications business ECN. Last month, the regulator released its latest draft regulations on the management of interconnect agreements. The document caused an outcry among smaller operators and industry watchers when […]

John Holdsworth – 19 August 2009 ECN legally challenge high interconnect rates in attempt to reducing telecoms costs in South Africa South Africa’s telecommunications costs are among the highest in the world. ECN is committed to strategy aimed at reducing telecommunications costs. The primary reason for such high telecommunications costs is interconnection charges – the […]

There may, finally, be relief for businesses and individual consumers from costly cellphone bills after advocate Gilbert Marcus’s legal opinion that the industry regulator, Icasa, has the right to force down the fees. Vodacom and MTN hiked the cost of switching a call from one network to another from 20c a minute to R1,25, a […]