Tensions are rising between SA’s mobile operators over interconnection fees. MTN SA CEO Karel Pienaar has slammed a proposal by…
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The Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) wants more time to deal with the issue of mobile interconnection fees. Just…
Government and the mobile operators were locked in an urgent, closed-door meeting in Pretoria on Tuesday following the collapse of…
A meeting between the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) and telecommunications operators over mobile interconnection fees has broken down.…
Vodacom CEO Pieter Uys has denied accusations that the cellular group colluded with rival MTN to hike interconnection fees months…
Cell C has proposed to parliament that mobile interconnection rates — the fees the operators charge to carry calls on…
Cellular operators were set to receive a grilling in parliament this week. Politicians want mobile interconnection fees to come down. But it’s far from clear if the basic cost of calls will also fall. Can politicians avoid the temptation of interfering further?
The debate over cellphone interconnection rates is only about how much they would be reduced and over what time period,…
Newly appointed communications director-general Mamodupi Mohlala says government wants mobile operators to reduce prepaid tariffs by passing on a planned…
A flurry of initiatives aimed at achieving a reduction in mobile termination rates will provide interesting sidesdows, but beneath the politics of the moment, the real action remains an intimate dance between the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) and the mobile networks. The initial mobile termination rate, also known as interconnection rate, of 20c/minute was set between Vodacom and MTN on 8 August 1994. This was amended on 28 May 1999, shortly after it was announced by government that a third mobile cellular telecommunications licence would be issued.