The Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (INCM) is reassured and guarantees that there will be no increase in tariffs for communications services in Mozambique.

According to the INCM, it will only set some guidelines for mobile phone companies to follow.

The information was shared by the INCM spokesman, Massingue Apala, speaking yesterday, Sunday (10) on Mozambique's Television News, stressing that "in fact, the tariffs have not been revised upwards, they remain as they are".

"The current tariff for the voice service, for example, costs six meticais, and data is one metical, so what the regulator has done is to set targets," added the source, quoted by AIM, noting that the operators' commercial packages should remain within the targets since the INCM does not want the service to be provided below the minimum tariff.

For the INCM, the widespread idea that tariffs are going up may be linked to a lack of information on the costs of these services.

"There's a perception that the price has gone up, the price hasn't because nowadays we don't know (for example) how much a megabyte costs, voice per minute, these rates are all on the pages of the operators and INCM, so the rates haven't gone up," he said.

Apala, for example, says that a minute of voice calls costs 6.5 meticais, but the operators don't charge this price because they are focused on their strategy of retaining and attracting customers by reducing tariffs.

"The rates charged now are below the cost of service," he points out.

The source reassured consumers of communications services that "the market is healthy, we are still not raising prices, they will remain the same, what will happen from now on is that operators will develop packages and these packages will be approved by the INCM".

The statements are aimed at clarifying the INCM's new resolution determining the minimum limits on telecommunications service tariffs.