{"id":10008,"date":"2009-10-14T08:19:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-14T06:19:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-03-15T12:54:24","modified_gmt":"2013-03-15T10:54:24","slug":"doc-issues-policy-direction-to-cut-interconnect-rate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/10008-doc-issues-policy-direction-to-cut-interconnect-rate.html","title":{"rendered":"DoC issues policy direction to cut interconnect rate"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Minister of Communications Siphiwe Nyanda yesterday issued a policy direction on Mobile Termination Rates in terms of section 3 (2)(c) of the Electronic Communications Act, 2005 (Act No. 36 of 2005).<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is in line with the Department of Communications\u2019 commitment to reduce the cost to communicate,\u201d the Department of Communications (DoC) said in a press statement.<\/p>\n

The \u2018policy direction on mobile termination rates\u2019 directed ICASA to:<\/p>\n

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  1. prescribe the regulations in terms of the Act;<\/li>\n
  2. take into consideration the benchmarking study on the cost to\u00a0 communicate concluded and published by the department in 2009, and any other relevant studies or information; and<\/li>\n
  3. lower the interconnection rates, specifically the mobile termination rate, to a cost-based rate.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The DoC invited interested parties to provide written submissions in relation to the proposed policy direction within 30 working days.<\/p>\n

    Discussion on wholesale termination rates<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    The Department of Communications\u2019 policy direction on Mobile Termination Rates gazetted yesterday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cellular"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10008"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}