Namibia: Call costs cut -

Telecom Namibia (TN) has cut tariffs for 2013/2014, with effect from 1 December 2013, as part of its efforts to stimulate traffic to key international destinations, The New Era reported. Peak tariff for calls to South Africa will go down by 8 percent while off-peak mobile and fixed call charges will be unchanged. Peak calls to Angola, Germany, UK, Portugal, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, Spain, Australia, France and Kenya will be cut by an average of 10 percent while off-peak tariffs to the same destinations will go down by an average of 8.5 percent for both fixed and mobile destinations. Call tariffs for the US and Rest of the World will be reduced by 9 percent for both mobile and fixed line destinations. Calls to Zimbabwe mobile will however increase to NAD 4.35 and NAD 5.15 per minute for post-paid and pre-paid, respectively.