Nairobi, Feb. 27 -- Safaricom faces a significant drop in its interconnection revenues after the telecommunications sector regulator moved to steadily cut what operators charge each other to enable cross-network voice services by a cumulative 26.8 percent in four years.

The Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) has set a four-year glide path that will see the Mobile Termination Rate (MTR) per minute decline from the previous Sh0.41 to Sh0.37 that took effect on Sunday and further to Sh0.3 by March 2029.

When a customer on one network calls a user on another, the originating operator pays the termination fee to the receiving network.

For example, Airtel Kenya will charge Safaricom a fee when a call is placed to its network from a Safar...