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To disable the service, you must dial the command *4645*0#, or send an SMS to the short number 4645 with the word OFF. If within 90 days there are not sufficient funds on the balance to renew the “King of the Hill” service, the service will be automatically disabled. each other for connecting their subscriber to a subscriber of another network, which is not new at all. When the Swedish discounter Tele2 entered Kazakhstan at the beginning of 2010, company representatives repeatedly said that interconnect rates in Kazakhstan would be reduced to an extremely low value. Moreover, they spoke about this so confidently that it seemed as if this point was stipulated during the sale of the MTS operator (the Neo brand, the company was owned by Kazakhtelecom, part of the Samruk-Kazyna state holding). However, later, from the two main players - GSM-Kazakhstan (Kcell brand) and KaR-Tel (Beeline brand) - the newcomer only managed to achieve agreement to a slight and gradual reduction in interconnect rates. Having existed for some time in this aggressive environment, Tele2 seems to be ready to take the warpath again.
Expert Kazakhstan spoke with the President of Tele2 Kazakhstan about why the interconnect rate is so important for Tele2. Andrey Smelkov, who believes that this is a gross restriction of competition.
- So, explain to our readers once again why you think that the speech is in this case is it about limiting competition?
You see, for two companies that together held 93% of the market by revenue in 2011, it does not matter what interconnect rate is set. They exchange a large amount of traffic among themselves, they pay each other. These incomes increase their revenue figures. But their costs for paying for other people’s traffic are just as high. That is, there is either no net profit there, or it is small. But the momentum is rising. If the interconnect rate decreases by three to four times, then the revenue from this area will also decrease. Which probably won't sit well with shareholders. But real negative influence There can be no benefit from a rate cut, no matter what they say. Their traffic delta between each other is zero or negligible. They have a non-zero delta with us, with Altel, since a smaller subscriber base, of course, generates more traffic to a larger base than in the opposite direction. With a rate of 15.02 tenge, we still owe huge amounts to Beeline and Kcell every month. Although we are a small operator. So far, everything is not good with our profitability. Our operating expenses are higher than our operating income. And plus we also pay a lot of money to these two players. It's unclear why.
- If I'm not mistaken, they say that we are talking about payment for the use of their infrastructure. Kazakhtelecom also takes money for the use of its channels when it provides transit of other people's traffic.
The case with GSM networks is different - this is a different kind of telecom. What is interconnect essentially? There are two switches. A fiber optic channel will be stretched between them. There are actually a lot of ports on switches. Fiber optics can carry huge volumes of traffic. By lowering the rate, we simply allow our subscribers to communicate with each other.
- Operators waste electricity, there is some wear and tear on equipment, salaries of specialists again... Still, purely from a business point of view, there are costs. Another thing is what level they really are at.
I don’t argue, you can find arguments in defense of existing rates. But the biggest nonsense is that, for example, we charge a subscriber 8 tenge for a call, and our costs for it are 15 tenge. And the same goes for our competitors, who offer approximately the same tariffs. But they all compensate for this by mutual payment. But we don’t. How can a small player survive in this situation? If we didn't have a good financial support from a shareholder, we would have ceased to exist long ago. That is, it turns out that a player who systematically reduces communication prices in a country, doing good for its citizens and thereby forcing other players to reduce tariffs, finds themselves in a losing position. In fact, our entry into the market changed it radically. We offered low rates - and thanks to us, the cost of a minute of conversation fell for everyone. But if we weren’t there, everything would remain in its place. And expensive interconnect is a kind of artificial barrier to the development of competition.
- When you entered the market, this question should have worried you then. As far as I remember, we also published several articles on this matter. That is, you should have understood the scale of the problem even then.
You know, our business plan is drawn up according to the worst-case scenario, according to which this rate will not be reduced at all. Even in this situation, we have enough funding to reach the break-even point. Of course, such a path will be longer and more difficult. Nevertheless, we believe, we are 100% sure of this, that the state should regulate this rate, help new players enter the market and thereby increase competition. From the shareholder's point of view, of course, taking a longer time to reach the break-even point means tens of millions of dollars of investment. Which makes investing in Kazakhstan generally less attractive. Although I don't understand the government. Keeping the rate at the current level means marking time. It holds back the development of the industry. Kazakhstan has the most expensive communications in the CIS. average cost conversation per minute in 2011 was 10.3 tenge. In Russia, this figure is 35% lower - 6.7 tenge. In Kyrgyzstan it is 74% lower - 2.7 tenge. In Ukraine and Uzbekistan it is 85% lower - 1.6 tenge. Feel, as they say, the difference. All this is a consequence of weak competition.
- Other operators explain the figures you provided by the fact that we have a unique situation: a small population dispersed over a vast territory. Because in the Republic of Kazakhstan there is traditionally no division into zones, as in other countries. Calls to Almaty and Atyrau are charged the same. Therefore the costs are higher.
This is all from the evil one. Let's look at the numbers. KaR-Tel's EBITDA for the first quarter of 2012 inclusive amounted to 47.8%. And the entire Beeline group at the same time - 40.2%. EBITDA of GSM-Kazakhstan for this period was generally 59.2%. This is data from their own reports. But, for example, the figure for the world's largest player Vodafone is 31.5%. Russian operators Megafon and MTS have EBITDA of 41.6% and 41.8%, respectively. That is, ours clearly still have room for improvement. GSM-Kazakhstan and KaR-Tel actually have excess income. If they reduce communication prices, yes, the margins of their business will fall, but you can live with 40% EBITDA, and everyone will be happy. Naturally, no one wants to lose extra profit, and the two players making up the oligopoly are doing everything possible to not reduce interconnection.
- They remember the story with European operators, whom price competition brought them to the point that they had no funds left for reinvestment and development. And, they say, the same thing can happen to us.
You know, at one of the press conferences I showed a presentation where the EBITDA of the operators was also demonstrated, and how much CAPEX (English: CAPital EXpenditure - capital expenditures - “EC”) they invested in the networks. And it shows that all these investments in the 3G networks that are now being deployed have long since paid off, and even the investments in the 4G networks that are still in the plans, too. Now these players are simply making pure profit. Everything pays off, they have enough money for everything. Some companies say that their business in Uzbekistan is unprofitable. But for some reason they also invest hundreds of millions of dollars in this market, and no one leaves. Although prices there are 6.5 times lower than ours. No need to pretend. The industry will remain attractive even with radical price cuts.
- “Tele2” relatively recently began expanding into Russia. What is the situation with the interconnect rate?
In Russia, the rate has existed for a long time, and it is equal to 4.8 tenge, if calculated in Kazakhstani currency. She turned out like this without any coercion. The regulator does not affect this rate since it is normal. She also arranged for Tele2 when we entered the Russian Federation. We propose, by analogy, to make a bet in Kazakhstan of about 5 tenge. We work with Altel at this rate. And we don’t have any problems with each other. We have made offers to both Kcell and Beeline several times. They sent letters. But the answer was a refusal.
- Operators say that the rate reduction will lead to a decrease in their income and, as a result, the treasury will not collect enough taxes.
There is a great example - Türkiye. There, too, the regulator decided to force a radical reduction in the rate when it entered new player. Existing players screamed that income would fall, the industry would become unprofitable, and less taxes would go to the treasury. In reality, the interconnect rate has decreased, and the volume of services has increased due to falling prices. Each of the players eventually increased their volumes both in terms of revenue and profit. Everything was covered in chocolate. Including consumers who received cheaper prices. Yes, this spurred competition, forced us to look for new ways to earn money, introduced new services, promoted Mobile Internet and so on. Be that as it may, no catastrophe happened, but rather the opposite. And the current rate there now is 2.8 tenge. In fact, Kazakhstan already has statistics. On January 1, 2011, the rate was reduced by 20%. And in 2011, the average number of call minutes per month increased by 14%, the cost per minute decreased by 16%. Kcell's revenue increased by 18%, Beeline - by 9%. In fact, reducing the rate will lead to an increase in tax revenues for the state and to an increase in GDP. Although our opponents are still looking for an argument. They engaged the GSM Association, which once made a presentation where there were slides showing that there are countries where interconnect rates are even higher than in Kazakhstan...
- So there are still such countries? Do you remember which ones, by any chance?
I don't remember now. I think Australia was mentioned. But in fact, it seems to me that Kazakhstan needs to follow the CIS countries in this matter. In Russia, Uzbekistan, and Kyrgyzstan, rates are several times lower.
You can count. But again, I repeat: according to the experience of Turkey, all this decline is compensated for by increasing the volume of services. So why? Even if someone’s revenue decreases by 10-15%, this is not a disaster. Moreover, this does not affect profitability.
- Now, if we were the heads of your two competing companies, any sensible businessman would hold the interconnect rate for as long as possible in order to prevent you from increasing your share, while he himself gradually reduced the tariffs to approximately your level in order to kill your price advantage.
Absolutely right. I met with one of the executives of Beeline. And he honestly told me: “Andrey, I will do everything possible to hinder your development.” That is, not to expand the interconnect joint so that it is more difficult for our subscribers to reach their subscribers - and so that our clients will suffer because of this on the quality of our communications. Don't change positions with us. And so on. This is normal competition. But we must understand that our subscriber base is growing rapidly. We are no longer a small “Neo”. We now have more than one million subscribers. By creating obstacles in this way, they also harm themselves. The fact that we constantly talk about the high cost of communications in Kazakhstan, about oligopoly, harms their reputation. Their subscribers are beginning to perceive them as expensive operators. In fact, they themselves agree that the rate is inadequate. Dmitry Kromsky, former manager KaR-Tel (operating under the Beeline brand) and the current vice president of VimpelCom for the CIS, a person whom I respect very much, in his interview with the comnews.ru website on May 25, 2010, said: “In Kazakhstan It’s quite difficult to play dumping - the price of interconnection there is the highest among all CIS countries.” But the representative of TeliaSonera, the shareholder of GSM-Kazakhstan\Kcell, vice president for work with government agencies of this company Claes-Goran Sundelius...
- Does he agree too?
He and I participated together in a conference at the Stockholm School of Economics, and we both spoke there. I had a topic on the development of competition in Kazakhstan. Taking this opportunity, I publicly asked him the question: “What do you think about interconnect rates in general?” To this he, perhaps not being entirely prepared, replied that these rates as such should be reduced, and ideally be equal to zero. That is, everyone, in principle, admits that the stakes are too high. But when we start dialogue with operators, the position is different. When it was announced that we had reached an agreement that interconnect rates would be reduced by 10-15%, this was presented as a solution that suited everyone. In fact, it was about the limits to which our competitors agreed to move. However, this is completely insufficient. There is a plan according to which there will be a reduction of 10-15% over several years, and at this rate by 2020 we will reach 10 tenge per minute.
- What do you expect from the state?
If the Ministry of Communications issues an order on the maximum rate, all operators, I think, will comply. Just like they did when, for example, a decree was issued on tariff increments. We are waiting for an adequate response from the state. There are a lot of precedents of this kind in the world. In Spain, the industry regulator ordered operators to reduce the rate by 73%, in France - by 75%, in Italy - by 40%. If the same order appears in Kazakhstan, everyone will continue to work normally, in a civilized manner. And they will probably compete more, instead of blaming each other. Let me appropriately quote Minister Askar Zhumagaliev, who on June 13 at a government meeting said the following: “Still, we need to work with these interconnect tariffs government agencies from the point of view of cost analysis and their reduction.”
- By government agencies, he could also mean the Agency for Protection of Competition.
The filling station made an attempt to include GSM-Kazakhstan and KaR-Tel in the register of dominant companies. These operators filed a lawsuit against this decision. Now the case is in court, and only God knows how long it will remain there. Although the decision is quite reasonable - there are two dominant ones in the market, and it is clear that the main volume of traffic goes through them. Mr. Zhumagaliev said that the ministry hired a company to examine interconnect rates, and the results of this study will appear in September. But what will happen next is not clear. From my point of view, all this does not require so much work. In fact, there are examples in the world when the state, when a new player enters and when a traffic imbalance is visible, introduces asymmetric interconnect rates. Just to stimulate competition. For example, when Tele2 entered Norway, they offered it a preferential rate. After a strictly agreed time - two to three years - the rates are equalized. Regardless of whether the new operator has grown or not grown.
- So, in your opinion, something similar should be introduced for you and Altel?
Well, after all, Altel has been working on the market much longer than us, although, of course, it is in a similar situation. To be honest, I’m afraid to hope for an asymmetric bet, since this is a fantasy, a fairy tale. We could at least get a reduction in interconnect rates. This is fair and must be done. The president, the prime minister, and the minister of communications are talking about this. But the ministry, instead of regulating the barrier to competition, regulates our prices for the end consumer. Which is generally nonsense: dictating to commercial companies the prices they should set for their product. If you remove barriers to competition, the price itself will go down. If the filling station finds out that someone is dominant in the market and there is a conspiracy between them, and there is no other way to be in this market, then please introduce tariffs. But setting standards for retail prices- it is not right.
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