Telkom has welcomed the decrease in call termination rates proposed by Icasa. However, it says that asymmetry between mobile and fixed-line termination rates doesn’t make sense.
Call termination rates are the fees operators charge one another to connect a call from a rival network to a subscriber on their own.These rates apply to both mobile and fixed services.At the moment, small operators can charge large operators R0.13 per minute, whereas large operators charge R0.09/min in return.
At the same time, Telkom had 18.29 million mobile subscribers, which was roughly half of what MTN had. Vodacom had 47.26 million subscribers as of September last year.The second part of the amendment aims to ultimately phase out asymmetric rates between mobile operators.
However, Cell C told MyBroadband that decreasing rates without maintaining asymmetry, “would disproportionately benefit the already dominant players, leading to revenue loss for smaller operators like Cell C, with no direct benefit to the end consumer.”
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