The Chief Executive Officer of Ghana Telecom (GT), Mr. Oystein
Bjorge, has stated that although negotiations with other mobile
phone operators (Areeba, Buzz and Kasapa) to change the payment regime of interconnectivity tariffs are still ongoing, he would put onto the table the idea of the Originator Takes All.
He said the current system of payment in connection with
interconnectivity rate has resulted in an imbalance in the industry, which is not in their favour because majority of their fixed line calls are terminated on mobile networks.
He explained that with the Original Takes All strategy, revenue
generated by a call from an originating network would go to
originator of the call rather than sharing.
Mr. Bjorge further stated that it is very expensive using a mobile to terminate a call on a fixed line therefore leading to less revenue coming to GT.
"Most of our fixed lines are used to call the other mobile network therefore with GT paying for the termination of calls on the other phone networks.
We have to pay them minutes of calls from our network into their network and obviously calling from our fixed network, we are going to pay more. We send so much traffic to the mobile operators and we end up paying more to mobile operators. We are not happy about it and we want the procedure to changed.
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