Icasa in bid to balance fair prices and profit.

Byline: Thabiso Mochiko

Icasa in bid to balance fair prices and profit Operators ask the regulator to delay implementing proposed rate cut, writes THE telecommunications industry is anxiously waiting for the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) to announce its final decision on the interconnection rate cut after a marathon three-day public hearing last week. The regulator issued a statement on Friday but did not commit to any time frames regarding the release of the final call termination regulations. The regulations mainly seek to reduce the wholesale price or interconnection rate fees that fixed and mobile telecommunications operators pay each other to …