BOCRA wins fight to slash mobile charges :: Mmegi Online

A key component of local mobile tariffs will drop by 41% on June 1, after the Botswana Communications Regulatory Authority (BOCRA) won a bitter legal battle with Mascom, the country's largest mobile carrier.

On Tuesday, High Court judge, Michael Leburu ruled against Mascom’s application which sought to stop BOCRA from cutting the Mobile Termination Rate to 13 thebe on June 1. Known as the MTR, the rate is cost that mobile operators charge each other for voice calls that terminate in their respective networks. Essentially, the MTR involves the cost of calling from one network to another. Such calls attract the highest domestic charges and are the most frequent in the local market.

Mascom brought the urgent suit against the regulator last June, after BOCRA issued a directive to cut the MTR from nearly 30 thebe, to 22 thebe from June 1, 2017, then 13 thebe from June 1, 2018.

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BOCRA wins fight to slash mobile charges

A key component of local mobile tariffs will drop by 41% on June 1, after the Botswana Communications Regulatory Authority (BOCRA) won a bitter legal battle with Mascom, the country's largest mobile carrier.

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