Reuters: Technology News: South Africa's Cell C lodges competition complaint against MTN, Vodacom

Reuters: Technology News Reuters.com is your source for breaking news, business, financial and investing news, including personal finance and stocks. Reuters is the leading global provider of news, financial information and technology solutions to the world's media, financial institutions, businesses and individuals. // via fulltextrssfeed.com

Refresh your vocabulary. Learn a new word everyday by subscribing to Word of the Day. A great tool if you're studying for the GRE, GMAT or LSAT, or simply want to enhance your lexicon. From our sponsors

South Africa's Cell C lodges competition complaint against MTN, Vodacom Oct 9th 2013, 09:32 Tweet Share this Email Print Reprints Related Topics Tech » Hot Stocks » Asian Markets » A man speaks on a mobile phone as he walks past a MTN shop at a shopping mall south of Johannesburg June 6, 2012. Credit: Reuters/Siphiwe Sibeko By Tiisetso Motsoeneng JOHANNESBURG | Wed Oct 9, 2013 5:32am EDT JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's third-largest mobile operator Cell C on Wednesday lodged an antitrust complaint against MTN Group and Vodacom, charging its bigger rivals with "discriminatory pricing". Unlisted Cell C said in a statement it had lodged the complaint with South Africa's competition watchdog over the rates MTN and Vodacom charge their own customers for calling users of other networks. MTN and Vodacom offer discounts when customers call subscribers on the same network, but charge a premium for calls to other networks, Cell C CEO Alan Knott-Craig said in a statement. "This amounts to discriminatory pricing and is without a doubt anti-competitive when adopted by dominant operators," he said. No one was immediately available for comment at MTN or Vodacom. It was not immediately clear what action, if any, the Pretoria-based Competition Commission would take after receiving the complaint. South Africa's telecoms operator on Friday said it planned to cut by 75 percent the fees mobile companies can charge rivals to use their networks. The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa plans to cut the so-called mobile termination rates to 10 South African cents by 2016, from 40 cents now. Vodacom, a unit of Britain's Vodafone Plc is the dominant carrier in South Africa. Bigger rival MTN Group is the largest mobile operator in Africa but has a smaller slice of the South African market. (Reporting by Tiisetso Motsoeneng; editing by David Dolan) Tweet this Link this Share this Digg this Email Reprints We welcome comments that advance the story through relevant opinion, anecdotes, links and data. If you see a comment that you believe is irrelevant or inappropriate, you can flag it to our editors by using the report abuse links. Views expressed in the comments do not represent those of Reuters. For more information on our comment policy, see http://blogs.reuters.com/fulldisclosure/2010/09/27/toward-a-more-thoughtful-conversation-on-stories/ Comments (0) Be the first to comment on reuters.com. Add yours using the box above.

You are receiving this email because you subscribed to this feed at blogtrottr.com. If you no longer wish to receive these emails, you can unsubscribe from this feed, or manage all your subscriptions