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Reasons document and Authority's analysis on Stakeholder comments on the Amendment of the Call Termination Regulations, 2024 in accordance with sections 4(7)(b) and 67(8)(a) of the Act

4. Decision On Methodology

 

4.1 The stakeholder’s written comments on the Authority’s methodology were considered by the Authority in a process that culminated in a Council meeting on 22 August 2022. The Authority made the following decisions which were captured in a separate document titled ‘ICASA Methodology Briefing Note on CTR Review 2021 Cost Modelling Phase August 2023’3 (‘the Methodology Briefing Note’) as follows:
4.1.1 the pure LRIC approach will be used to model termination costs;
4.1.2 economic depreciation will be applied to model termination costs;
4.1.3 fixed termination costs will be modelled separately to mobile termination costs;
4.1.4 the top-down spreadsheets will be used to sense-check and calibrate bottom-up model outcomes; and
4.1.5 asymmetric costs will not be modelled.

 

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3 Methodology Briefing Note available at https://www.icasa.org.za/legislation-and-regulations/icasa-methodology-briefing-note.