Icasa announces call termination rate model

[Kevin Lancaster]

Cost model adopted for call termination rates

Icasa has announced it has adopted the Long-Run Incremental Cost Plus (LRIC+) as the cost standard for mobile and fixed wholesale voice call termination

 

[entrepr]

Great news. LRIC is the more prevalent standard by forward-thinking regulators. Hopefully the key benefit - lower termination rates - will ensue, once ICASA figures out how to apply the model

 

[Paul Hjul]

this isn't going to end well as the September deadline approaches

expect litigation ...

unless the operators grow up - or their shareholders realize that management is mucking them over.

 

[DXL]

This is Great news guys .................
It means call termination is going to be close both for Fixed and Mobile Termination.

All things taken into account means 10c per minute is definitely on the Cards over the next 2 years.

So 50c a minute is a reality across all networks permanently.

The method in the madness is going to be the asymmetry which EmptyN & VodaCon were not happy with the last time around.

So for arguments sake if the Termination Rate :
From 1 Oct 2014 till 31 March 2015 if the termination rate is 20c then the expected asymmetry should be 30c.
From 1 April 2015 till 31 March 2016 if the termination rate is 15c then the expected asymmetry should be 25c
From 1 April 2016 till 31 March 2017 if the termination rate is 10c then the expected asymmetry should be 15c
From 1 April 2017 till 31 March 2018 if the termination rate is 10c then the expected asymmetry should be 10c


Lets Wait and See how it pans out ..........................

 

[torgo]

So is there no equivalent model data!!!!