{"id":67672,"date":"2014-09-04T17:57:51","date_gmt":"2014-09-04T15:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=67672"},"modified":"2014-09-04T18:02:27","modified_gmt":"2014-09-04T16:02:27","slug":"new-call-termination-rates-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/67672\/new-call-termination-rates-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"New call termination rates announced"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) revealed its new call termination regulations at a press conference called at the last-minute on Thursday, 4 September 2014.<\/p>\n

Call termination rates are the fees telecommunications operators charge each other to connect calls to one another\u2019s networks.<\/p>\n

This comes after the regulator\u2019s previous regulations were struck down by the South Gauteng High Court as unlawful and invalid.<\/p>\n

However, the judge suspended the declaration of invalidity for six months, giving Icasa until the end of September to produce new regulations.<\/p>\n

These new regulations offer significantly lower asymmetry to smaller players such as Cell C and Telkom Mobile, which is partly what MTN and Vodacom fought for.<\/p>\n

Asymmetry in the rates means that the regulations allow that Cell C and Telkom Mobile charge more for Vodacom and MTN to connect calls to their networks than the larger operators are allowed to charge the small ones.<\/p>\n

The same principle applies to fixed networks, albeit to a lesser extent, with Telkom considered the large network.<\/p>\n

In the table below the new mobile call terminations that Icasa announced are summarised.<\/p>\n

The fixed call rates from 1 October 2014 to 28 February 2015 will be 12c within the same area code and 19c between different area codes.<\/p>\n

From March 2015 the ternimation rates for fixed and mobile calls will be the same.<\/p>\n

\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Mobile termination rates<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Date<\/strong><\/td>\nTermination rate<\/strong><\/td>\nAsymmetry<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1 October 2014 to 28 February 2015<\/td>\n20c<\/td>\n50% (30c)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1 March 2015 to 29 February 2016<\/td>\n16c<\/td>\n38% (22c)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1 March 2016 to 28 February 2017<\/td>\n12c<\/td>\n33% (16c)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1 March 2017 to 28 February 2018<\/td>\n8c<\/td>\n25% (10c)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n

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