Commission: Decides to Reduce Accounting Rates for Call Termination Between Telecom Companies

The Commission's Board of Directors, chaired by His Excellency the Minister of Communications and Information Technology, Eng. Abdullah bin Amer Al-Swaha, and in the presence of His Excellency the Governor of the Communications and Information Technology Commission, Dr. Abdulaziz bin Salem Al-Ruwais, approved a reduction in the prices of wholesale local voice call termination services on mobile telecom networks, so that the price ceiling would be (5.5) halalas instead of (10) halalas, and a reduction in the prices of wholesale local voice call termination services on fixed telecom networks so that the price ceiling would be (2.1) halalas instead of (4.5) halalas, effective from 5/4/1439H. The Commission explained that this decision comes out of its keenness to enhance and encourage competition, and to provide telecom services at reasonable prices.

It is noted that wholesale local voice call termination prices between telecom service providers are those prices that a service provider receives from another service provider in exchange for delivering incoming calls to subscribers on its network, paid by the service provider from which the calls originated to the service provider that received the call.