Cell Phone Users to Pay per Second in March

Mongolian cell phone users currently pay for a whole minute even if their call lasts only few seconds. 

However from March 1, 2013, customers will pay by the second rather than by the minute. The Agency for Fair Competition and Consumer Rights (AFCCR) held a meeting on September 25 in which officials from AFCCR raised a proposal for mobile phone operators to calculate the rate of phone calls per second, not by minute, and to stop requiring collateral money from new pre-paid mobile phone users.

The AFCCR issued a press release on October 16 to inform media about the decision of AFCCR and the administrations of the Communications Regulatory Commission of Mongolia, the Information, Communications Technology and Post Authority (ICTPA), Mobicom Corporation, Unitel Group, Skytel and G-Mobile regarding the proposals. Director Ts.Jadambaa of the ICTPA stated “Four mobile phone operators (Mobicom, Unitel, Skytel, G-Mobile) will shift to the new payment system at the same time on March 1, 2013. Before starting the system, we need to determine the payment per second. Users will have two options. They can either remain with the old tariff payment or shift to the new system.”

The project to relieve users from collateral payment, whether partially or entirely, will be implemented starting from November 1.

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