BOCRA keeps close watch on mobile network operators

The source for multiple SIM ownership
The source for multiple SIM ownership

The Botswana Communications Regulatory Authority (BOCRA) says it is keeping a close watch on mobile network operators to ensure their compliance with a directive on reduction in tariffs.

This follows the recent dismissal of an urgent application in which Mascom Wireless sought to challenge the directive from BOCRA ordering operators including Mascom, Orange Botswana and Botswana Telecommunications Corporation Limited (BTCL) to reduce, amongst other charges, off-net and on-net charges over a period of two years.

According to BOCRA deputy director of corporate communications, Aaron Nyelesi, the first reduction effected on June 1, 2017 and the final reduction will take effect on June 1, 2018.

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