Why Safaricom, Airtel are fighting over call rate cuts

Safaricom Limited's headquarters on April 24, 2017. PHOTO | DIANA NGILA | NMG

Airtel Networks Kenya has criticised Safaricom for seeking to scuttle the recently announced cut in mobile termination rates (MTR), accusing the telco of only being interested in protecting its revenues from rivals.

MTRs are the charges levied by a mobile service provider on other telecommunications service providers for terminating calls in its network.

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