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SADC Ministers commit to reducing cross-border communications cost

11th April 2014

By: Natasha Odendaal

Creamer Media Senior Deputy Editor

  

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Southern African Development Community (SADC) countries agreed last month to seek private-sector cooperation to reduce the cost of communicating across the borders within the region.

This followed a meeting between SADC Communications Ministers in Johannesburg to discuss postal services, mobile roaming, broad- band and digital migration in the region.

“It was agreed that within the policies and laws of the respective countries, regulators and, where appropriate, Ministers would seek to get greater cooperation of the mobile operators for this programme,” said Communications Minister Yunus Carrim.

“Given the considerable interdependence of our countries in the Southern African region, we agreed to cooperate more effec- tively in strengthening the information and communication technology sector in the region,” he noted in a statement.

Edited by Martin Zhuwakinyu
Creamer Media Magazine Managing Editor

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