{"id":6584,"date":"2012-02-23T22:47:10","date_gmt":"2012-02-23T22:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=6584"},"modified":"2012-11-14T15:23:17","modified_gmt":"2012-11-14T13:23:17","slug":"mtns-cell-c-number-range-cut-off-costs-service-providers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/6584\/mtns-cell-c-number-range-cut-off-costs-service-providers\/","title":{"rendered":"MTN’s Cell C number range cut-off costs service providers"},"content":{"rendered":"

MTN<\/a> has recently cut off the 08419 Cell C<\/a> number range, making it impossible for their subscribers to reach these Cell C numbers. This decision had a significant impact on service providers using this number range to provide services.<\/p>\n

The 08419 number range is currently used for value added Cell C services, which include international call-through services. With an international call-through service, a user dials a number, types their number into an IVR, and is then connected to an international number \u201cfor the price of a local call\u201d.<\/p>\n

Cell C is however not offering the international call-through service itself. Cell C signed up value added service (VAS) providers and allocated one or more numbers in the 08419 range to these providers.<\/p>\n

Unsurprisingly many of these service providers have reported significant losses after this decision by MTN.<\/p>\n

Clive Engelberg<\/a> from Phone IT, a service provider which provides international calling using the 08419 number range, says that while the impact on them was not too high, a few other players have lost as much as 40% of their minutes.<\/p>\n

Christopher Geerdts<\/a>, CEO of XConnect<\/a>, which provides wholesale international termination for local operators, says that they have seen an immediate slump in revenue after MTN cut off the 08419 number range.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe saw [an approximate] 15% drop in our total international business revenue overnight, and it has since picked up about 5% again,\u201d said Geerdts.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe actual providers in the business would have lost at least 30% of income. Since the services are used almost exclusively from mobile phones, the drop in calls reflects the MTN market share.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have lost about one-third of our call traffic and therefore one-third of our revenue that was originating from MTN,\u201d says Michael Toop from the service provider Callall.<\/p>\n

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