Icasa announces cellphone rates cut

By Lelethu Mquqo
29 October 2010

The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa says cellphone service providers will have to cut their call rates by March next year.

The broadcast regulator says peak time call rates will be 73-cents per minute, down from the current rate of 89-cents per minute.

Off-peak calls are expected to drop to 65-cents from 77 cents.

The move to cut call rates comes despite warnings from cellphone service provider Vodacom.

Vodacom has warned that such cuts could be disruptive to the communications sector as well as the economy at large.

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