The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), has mandated that international operators pay local operations the new fixed International Termination Rate for voice services in dollars.
The NCC fixed the new fixed International Termination Rate for voice services paid by overseas telecom carriers for ending international calls on local networks in Nigeria at $0.10
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According to the Commission the the new ITR is expected to take effect from September 1, 2022.
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.
This is according to information obtained from the NCC website, on the Determination of Mobile (Voice) International Termination Rate (As Amended).
On the reason for backtracking on the floor price to a fixed price, the NCC noted, “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.
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“To check the incidence of such anticompetitive 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.”
