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“This drop will go a long way in alleviating pressure for the consumer and is a step in the right direction,” spokesman Wandile Zote said in a statement.<\/p>\n
Mobile operators Vodacom, MTN and Cell C said recently interconnection tariffs would be lowered next year.<\/p>\n
“We fully support the Independent Communications Authority of SA’s (Icasa) regulatory process under section 10 of the Electronic Communications Act and trust that this will mean a further drop in interconnection rates.”<\/p>\n
Icasa has been given a deadline of June 2010 to complete the regulatory process.<\/p>\n
“The critical thing is that the industry should support Icasa in this process as it is in the best interest of consumers after all.”<\/p>\n
Neotel still believed the industry had a long way to go.<\/p>\n
“There is a lot of work still to be done around geographic number portability, local loop unbundling, carrier pre-select and spectrum allocation, to name but a few.”<\/p>\n