Effect of reduced interconnection charges on current contracts

My contract is up for renewal next week and I am loath to sign a 2 year contract with anyone of the three (4).

The reason is because of news articles like this one:
http://www.moneyweb.co.za/mw/view/mw/en/page39?oid=91893&sn=Detail

You see my thinking is that if I sign a R285.00 a month two YEAR contract on say MTN Procall 120 I get 120 'free' minutes worth R282.00 (based on MTN to OTHER).

But now lets say the interconnection charges are dropped a few months into the contract; and lets say the cell companies drop their call costs. Now MTN to OTHER costs less and for my R285 contract I only get say R165.00 worth of calls (same amount of time).

So my question is:
Assuming interconnection fees are reduced do you think the Cell companies will increase tyhe amount of free minutes you get on contracts or will they reduce contract prices or neither (all current contract holders get screwed)?

Telkomhater said:

So my question is:
Assuming interconnection fees are reduced do you think the Cell companies will increase tyhe amount of free minutes you get on contracts or will they reduce contract prices or neither (all current contract holders get screwed)?

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Based on how the current Vodacom data price cuts were carried out I don't think they'll screw current contract holders, whatever they offer for new customers should be passed on to you, after all they don't want you to leave out of spite when your contract does eventually expire.

I don't think they will do either with regards to the "free minutes" on current contracts. They will however drop the "out of bundled free minutes" call rates and give lower priced new contracts. So yes, maybe worth the wait, although I suspect it may still be a few months until we see the benefit, if any, passed onto the consumer.