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Two well established mobile phone service providers in Zimbabwe, Telecel Zimbabwe and NetOne, are said to have confirmed that they will reduce voice tariffs by almost 30% as of 01 January 2015. New Zimbabwe has reported that the two service providers are ready to comply with a directive issued by Potraz (Postal and Tele-communications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe) in October last year.

The current rate of 23 cents per minute is to be reduced to 15 cents, according to the directive. The publication has detailed in its report how, in terms of tariff management, authorities opted to adopt a long run incremental cost model rather than the ITU’s (International Telecommunications Union) Cositu pricing framework model.

New Zimbabwe quotes a circular by the Authority in which it is stated, “The Cositu model that was used from 2004 to 2009 was designed for switched circuits and has since been rendered obsolete due to technological and market developments in terms of newer services that are packet-based across the board.”

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