The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) has published fresh amendments to its call termination regulations on Wednesday, 27 March 2014 in Government Gazette No. 37471.<\/p>\n
These new regulations make Icasa\u2019s recent statements in the High Court official, as it removes mention of the mobile termination rate price cuts for 2015, 2016, and 2017.<\/p>\n
This means that, as the regulations stand now, termination rates for mobile calls are to drop to R0.20 per minute on 1 April 2014, with maximum asymmetry still set at R0.44.<\/p>\n
Termination rates are the fees mobile operators pay to each other to connect calls to each other’s networks.<\/p>\n
The regulation on \u201casymmetry\u201d lets smaller mobile operators, namely Cell C and Telkom Mobile, charge Vodacom and MTN more for connecting calls to their networks.<\/p>\n
In court, Icasa\u2019s lawyers said that the regulator would revisit the price cuts stipulated for 2015 onwards.<\/p>\n
However, the 2014 price cuts to 20c\/minute and maximum asymmetry of 44c\/minute must be allowed to proceed, Icasa argued.<\/p>\n
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