Cell C has lodged an application with the South Gauteng High Court over the call termination regulations that were enacted on 1 October 2014.<\/p>\n
\u201cCell C does not agree with the current Call Termination Regulations as promulgated<\/a> by the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) in September 2014,\u201d the mobile operator\u2019s CEO Jose Dos Santos said.<\/p>\n To get a copy of the record leading to Icasa\u2019s decision to promulgate these regulations, Cell C said it lodged the application with the court in December 2014.<\/p>\n \u201cThe \u2018record\u2019 is all correspondence between Icasa and the network operators and other parties, Icasa\u2019s meeting minutes, reports from Icasa\u2019s experts, presentations, and other documentation that shows what process Icasa followed and what information it relied on in making its decision,\u201d Dos Santos said.<\/p>\n He said that once Cell C has received the full record and has studied it in detail with its legal advisors, economists, and other experts, it will decide what steps to take.<\/p>\n News of Cell C\u2019s High Court application comes after the operator vowed it would fight the new call termination rates.<\/p>\n Speaking to attendees of the 2014 MyBroadband Conference, Dos Santos said they had no choice but to challenge the finalised rates that were unveiled the day before.<\/p>\n Call termination rates (CTRs) are the fees telecommunications providers pay one another to connect calls to each other\u2019s networks.<\/p>\n The point of contention in the CTRs centres around the level of asymmetry afforded to smaller operators such as Cell C and Telkom\u2019s mobile arm.<\/p>\n Asymmetry means that smaller operators are able to charge more to connect calls to their networks than Vodacom and MTN are allowed to charge in return.<\/p>\n Vodacom and MTN have\u00a0stated\u00a0they don\u2019t want Cell C to be granted any asymmetry benefits, while Cell C has argued for greater asymmetry for it and Telkom.<\/p>\n Cell C to challenge termination rates<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Icasa settles on new termination rates<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\nMore on Cell C<\/h3>\n