Icasa announces cost standardThe Independent Communications Authority of South Africa has announced that it has adopted the Long-Run Incremental Cost Plus ("LRIC+) to determine voice call termination costs. The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa has announced that it has adopted the Long-Run Incremental Cost Plus ("LRIC+) as the cost standard for the bottom-up and top-down modelling to determine the cost of mobile and fixed wholesale voice call termination. The basis for the decision of the cost standard adopted is as follows: 1. LRIC+ would allow operators to recover a portion of joint and common costs incurred in the provision of wholesale voice call termination service through termination rates. A briefing document including the assumptions used for the top-down and bottom-up models is available on Icasa's website. |