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Cellphone costs - and now the bad news

NEWSWATCH: It didn't take long for the high hopes regarding lower cellphone charges to be dashed… According to the MD of MTN, reducing the interconnection cost would not achieve what all cellphone subscribers want - a substantial reduction in costs, according to a news item in Business Report.

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