{"id":52379,"date":"2014-01-29T09:49:14","date_gmt":"2014-01-29T07:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=52379"},"modified":"2014-01-30T10:10:23","modified_gmt":"2014-01-30T08:10:23","slug":"drastic-call-termination-cuts-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/52379\/drastic-call-termination-cuts-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"Drastic call termination cuts announced"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa<\/a>) announced the new regulated rates for call termination on Wednesday, 29 January 2014.<\/p>\n

While Icasa\u2019s new rates are not as aggressive as those it proposed in October 2013, it does still give smaller operators such as Cell C<\/a> and Telkom Mobile<\/a> a higher rate.<\/p>\n

The level of asymmetry in the rates between large and small operators Icasa proposed previously caused a big stir last year, with large operators decrying it and small operators applauding it.<\/p>\n

A termination rate is the money networks pay to each other for connecting a call.\u00a0MTRs have declined from R1.25 in 2009 to a current price of 40 cents.<\/p>\n

Both MTN<\/a> and Vodacom<\/a> have warned against the implications of MTRs, with MTN saying it may have to look for ways to cut costs within its business.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a very real chance that if the fees go through the way they are at the moment, we\u2019ll have to take a significant knife to costs,\u201d the yellow network said.<\/p>\n

The table below summarises the call termination rates that are set to kick in on 1 March every year until 2017:<\/p>\n

\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Year<\/td>\nMTR<\/td>\nFTR<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Regulated rate<\/td>\nAsymmetry<\/td>\nRegulated rate<\/td>\nAsymmetry<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
WON<\/td>\nBON<\/td>\nWON<\/td>\nBON<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2014<\/td>\nR0.20<\/td>\nR0.44<\/td>\nR0.12<\/td>\nR0.16<\/td>\nR0.13<\/td>\nR0.21<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2015<\/td>\nR0.15<\/td>\nR0.42<\/td>\nR0.12<\/td>\nR0.12<\/td>\nR0.13<\/td>\nR0.13<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2016<\/td>\nR0.10<\/td>\nR0.40<\/td>\nR0.10<\/td>\nR0.10<\/td>\nR0.13<\/td>\nR0.13<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2017<\/td>\n<\/td>\nR0.20<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\nR0.13<\/td>\nR0.13<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n

WON: Within Networks | BON: Between Networks<\/small><\/p>\n

More on call termination rates<\/h3>\n

New call termination rates coming<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

MTR cuts would cost us R1 billion: MTN<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Vodacom bemoans asymmetry plans<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Icasa has announced the new regulated rates for call termination on Wednesday, 29 January 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":34900,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[42,26,36,65],"class_list":["post-52379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","tag-cell-c","tag-headline","tag-icasa","tag-telkom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52379","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52379"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52460,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52379\/revisions\/52460"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}