jul 3, 2019 - The Telecommunications Regulatory Agency has rejected the technical and pricing offers, to operators .

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The Telecommunications Regulatory Agency has rejected the technical and pricing offers, to operators and service providers.

The cost of the phone call and even SMS might be lower in Cameroon. The Telecommunications Regulatory Agency (ART) in its consumer protection mission wishes to minimize the final tariffs. So she just rejected the interconnection catalog and access to the operator Orange Cameroon for the year 2019.

A few weeks after MTN Cameroon. Specifically Soungui says Ali, Director of Licensing, competition and interconnection to ART is herein that each operator has its technical and pricing offers wholesale services for operators and service providers electronic communications.

"When you are a registered MTN for example and you call Orange, MTN charges you if the F 90 minute call would require that he pays in Orange 22 F from interconnection for call termination. These rates are an element of the tariff structure of the operator and represent between 15% and 18% of the retail price, "he says.

Logically, if the interconnect rate decrease, the retail price should also fall. This is what works ART in accordance with the current regulations which instructs the orientation of interconnection tariffs towards costs.

The Agency CAMTEL led to lower prices of leased lines for more than 71% between 2014 and 2018, as well as rates of international capabilities, more than 70% between 2014 and 2018. By cons, retail prices remained stable since 2016.

It was therefore requested to MTN and Orange and revise the offer of electronic communications service providers including the reduction of tariffs SMS wholesale, revenue sharing grid services to access, from a phone, voice data sources, insertion of an offer to use USSD codes (standard for transmitting information over GSM signaling channels) at reasonable rates.

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