| 4.1 | The stakeholder’s written comments on the Authority’s methodology were considered by the Authority in a process that culminated in a Council meeting on 22 August 2022. The Authority made the following decisions which were captured in a separate document titled ‘ICASA Methodology Briefing Note on CTR Review 2021 Cost Modelling Phase August 2023’3 (‘the Methodology Briefing Note’) as follows: |
| 4.1.1 | the pure LRIC approach will be used to model termination costs; |
| 4.1.2 | economic depreciation will be applied to model termination costs; |
| 4.1.3 | fixed termination costs will be modelled separately to mobile termination costs; |
| 4.1.4 | the top-down spreadsheets will be used to sense-check and calibrate bottom-up model outcomes; and |
| 4.1.5 | asymmetric costs will not be modelled. |
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3 Methodology Briefing Note available at https://www.icasa.org.za/legislation-and-regulations/icasa-methodology-briefing-note.
