Cell C’s new price offensive

Cell C’s new price offensive

Cell C has fired a new salvo in the mobile rates price war, slashing its per minute rate to an unprecedented 66 cents for its pre-paid customers. The announcement has just been made at a press conference currently underway at the company’s headquarters in Woodmead...

DoC to support Icasa on MTR finalisation

The Department of Communications (DoC) will give the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) more support in reaching finalisation on mobile termination rates (MTR). Minister of Communications Yunus Carrim met with the Council of Icasa to discuss...

Cell C, Telkom welcome court rates ruling

Cell C and Telkom have welcomed the ruling by the Johannesburg High Court to implement asymmetrical mobile termination rates (MTRs) immediately, although they will be reviewed after six months. Cell C believes the ruling made by Judge Mayat on the Mobile Termination...

Knott-Craig comments on MTR action

As MTN and Vodacom prepare to tackle Icasa (Independent Communications Authority of South Africa) in court this week over its decision to implement new mobile termination rates (MTR), Cell C CEO Alan Knott-Craig has issued the following statement: “It is no...

Telkom: MTR delay not in public interest

Recent moves to oppose new mobile termination rates (MTRs) will delay reducing the cost of calls to the consumer, and are not in the public interest, according to a statement from Telkom. “Telkom is relieved that the initial delay to the implementation of Mobile...