MTN Zambia has announced an average reduction of 40% in international call after the mobile service provider installed its own international gateway, this according to The Zambian Chronicle.
The company has reduced rates by as much as 80 percent to some international destinations including Canada, China, United States of America and India.
Last week, the Zambia Information and Communications Technology Authority (ZICTA) gave a go-ahead to mobile cellular phone companie to install their own international gateways.
Company chief executive Farhad Khan said “MTN Zambia received confirmation from ZICTA on June 14 that we could deploy our own international gateway .On June 18, literally less than a week later, MTN Zambia reduced all international calling rates by an average across the board of 40 percent.
“In the past, we relied entirely on the incumbent to terminate all our international traffic. Due to this, we as MTN Zambia did not have control of the costs and quality associated with international calls,” he said.
For countries such as South Africa, Namibia, Botswana and Tanzania, MTN has reduced call rates by 45 percent during peak calling times when corporate clients are most likely to call.
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