Dial interconnect for rip-off

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http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=267777&area=/insight/insight__economy__business/

Government’s war against excessive pricing moved into the area of telephone call charges recently, with regulator the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) putting the spotlight on how so-called interconnect fees raise both landline and mobile costs.

 

[bwana]

How can they (the mobile triopoly) not be considered as being a major operator?? These operators need b!tch smacking into submission.

 

[Skip]

Let's not forget that the mobile's are busy crowing that they've got 15 million subscribers each (compared to Telkom's 5 million fixed line subscribers) but yet they're not major operators.

 

[doobiwan]

. .. All declaring Multi billion rand profts . .

definitely not major operators . . .

 

[Gooku]

The is indeed an excellent article ,congratulations to Mr Lloyd Gedye

New Journalist: Joint Winner: Lloyd Gedye (Mail & Guardian)

Well done

Gooku

 

[bwana]

Government’s war against excessive pricing moved into the area of telephone call charges recently, with regulator the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) putting the spotlight on how so-called interconnect fees raise both landline and mobile costs.

If its the governments job to combat excessive pricing then why is the Independent regulator doing it?