{"id":36119,"date":"2013-04-19T08:38:32","date_gmt":"2013-04-19T06:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=36119"},"modified":"2013-04-19T09:09:47","modified_gmt":"2013-04-19T07:09:47","slug":"cell-c-threatens-legal-action-against-icasa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/36119\/cell-c-threatens-legal-action-against-icasa\/","title":{"rendered":"Cell C threatens legal action against Icasa"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cell C<\/a> chief executive Alan Knott-Craig<\/a> has warned of legal action if the telecoms regulator does not cut mobile termination rates by the end of the year, according to a report on Friday.<\/p>\n

“I will use everything in my power to get Icasa<\/a> [Independent Communications Authority of SA] to do its job,” Knott-Craig told Business Day newspaper.<\/p>\n

“We have to protect our company and the industry. It is also in the interest of consumers.”<\/p>\n

Mobile termination rates are the fees that mobile operators pay to carry each other’s calls on their networks. Last month, the rates were cut from 56 cents to 40 cents.<\/p>\n

High termination rates are seen as a barrier to small and new entrants in the industry.<\/p>\n

Knott-Craig — the former Vodacom<\/a> CEO — wants the rates to be cut by another 10 cents.<\/p>\n

Icasa spokesman Paseke Maleka told Business Day a review of the call termination market was already underway and would hopefully be finalised in this financial year.<\/p>\n

More Cell C news<\/h3>\n

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Eye-opening mobile porting numbers<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Cell C clears up SMS pricing uncertainty<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Cell C off the hook<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cell C chief executive Alan Knott-Craig has warned of legal action if the telecoms regulator does not cut mobile termination rates by the end of the year, according to a report on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":32591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[42,26,36,1904],"class_list":["post-36119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-cell-c","tag-headline","tag-icasa","tag-mobile-termination-rates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36119"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36137,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36119\/revisions\/36137"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}