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Confused about the lowering of cellphone interconnect rates and what it means for you? Send us your questions and we'll get an expert to answer them.

The pressure may be increasing on cellphone companies to lower their interconnect rates but exactly where does that leave you, the consumer?

Operators are charging each other R1,25 per minute during peak times to transmit calls via each other’s networks, while the communications committee has proposed that interconnect rates be cut to 60 cents per minute during peak times by November and further slashed by 15 cents annually until 2012.

Talks are continuing between Vodacom, MTN and Cell C. As the debate changes with each news article, you may be wondering what it all means and what it will translate into for existing customers of these companies.

Send any questions you may have on interconnect rates to the Mail & Guardian Online and we will get the Industrial Development Corporation’s telecoms expert Richard Hurst to answer you.

Click here to email us your questions.

Read more about lowering interconnect rates:

  • Cell companies agree to lower interconnect rates

  • Cell C: lower prices on the way

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