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    NCC Fixes $0.10 for termination of international calls

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    The Nigerian Communications Commission has disclosed that the new rate for fixed International Termination Rate (ITR) for voice services paid by overseas telecom carriers for ending international calls on local networks in Nigeria would take effect from September 1, 2022, was the fixed rate for ITR services.

    The Commission set $0.10 as the new fixed International Termination Rate. The ITR pertains to the cost of bringing call traffic into Nigeria, and it was increased from the $0.045 initially presented in December last year as a floor price.

    It added that international operators were mandated to pay local operations in dollars.

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    This is according to a document on the Determination of Mobile (Voice) International Termination Rate (As Amended) as of August 25, 2022, which is available on the NCC website.

    On the reason for backtracking on the floor price to a fixed price, the NCC in a statement said, “While the Determination had set a floor price at $0.045 and gives the MNOs room to negotiate on commercial terms with carriers, there were related indications that MNOs took advantage of this latitude to engage in discriminatory pricing that favours their related international carrier partners to the detriment of the Nigerian transit/IDA operators.

    “To check the incidence of such anti-competitive anti-competitive disposition, it was agreed by all parties at the meetings that a fixed rate should be adopted by the Commission, in place of the floor rate which had provided a platform for negotiations with various carriers at a rate above the floor.
    “It was further agreed that the present Determination should be amended to include this new fixed rate.”

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