Government tells telcos off

The Telecommunication Regulator of Cambodia (TRC) of the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications issued warning letters to mobile operators Beeline and Smart over their recent advertisement, stating it violates the Inter-Ministerial Prakas, or edict, signed in 2009. The separate letters, obtained by the Post last week, were approved by TRC’s president Mao Chakrya on March 1, stating that the companies did not comply with Inter-Ministerial Prakas number 232 dated December 7, 2009. … In response to price disputes and to set minimum tariffs, the Ministry of Economy and Finance and the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications signed the Inter-Ministerial Prakas No 232 on Minimum Tariffs of Mobile and Fixed Telephone Services and Interconnection Fees in December 2009. In paragraph one of article 4, the edict states that “minimum tariff of calls within one network shall be 4.5 cents per minute.” Later on the Prakas also says: “advertisings on on-net tariff must not be lower than 50 per cent of the tariff contained in Paragraph 1 of Article 4.” …

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