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Let sense prevail in mobile termination rate debate

A few weeks from now, State think-tank Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis (Kippra) will provide verdict on a contentious, but serious issue in the mobile industry-the Mobile Termination Rates (MTR).

MTR is the amount of money an operator pays rivals if its subscribers call another network. The amount has fallen from Sh4.42 in June 2009 to Sh2.21 in July 2010 and was to drop to Sh1.40 last July before President Kibaki suspended its implementation for one year following intense lobbying from Safaricom and Orange.

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