Ministry Cancels Telco Limits

An often flouted and publicly unpopular restriction forbidding Cambodia’s telecoms from offering lucrative mobile phone promotions was scrapped on Sunday, just two weeks after it was introduced. In a letter from the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications (MPTC), signed by Minister So Khun, it announced a halt to the implementation of the decision made between the Telecommunication Regulator of Cambodia (TRC) and all phone operators on April 22, when eight out of nine operators agreed to stop the promotions that violate a 2009 interministerial prakas. … Moa Chakrya, director of the TRC, said fmost of the operators agreed on what the prakas said, but Sunday’s announcement by the MPTC did not provide any restrictions on the use of promotions on those mobile operators. … Minimum tariffs for within- and cross-network calls have also caused disputes among the operators and the TRC. Moa Chakrya yesterday did not say whether or not the tariffs should be cheaper or more expensive than currently required in the prakas. …

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