The Communications Commission of Kenya (CCK) intends to implement the next phase of the mobile termination rate (MTR) glide path on July 1, meaning the cost of making a call across networks is set to drop significantly as the cost an operator pays to terminate a call on another network falls.
The implementation of the next phase of the process – which began in 2010 – will see the rates charged by mobile phone companies to each other to terminate calls outside their individual networks drop from the current KSh1.15 to KSh0.99, triggering a drop in calling rates.
“Further regulatory decisions on this matter will be communicated to the industry and other stakeholders in due course,” the CCK said.
MTRs have proved particularly controversial in South Africa in the last few months, where leading operators MTN and Vodacom went to court in an unsuccessful bid to have lower, asymmetric rates imposed by the regulator overturned.
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