ZAMBIA, Malawi, Zimbabwe, and Botswana have agreed to scrap off mobile roaming charges. Confirming the development in an interview, Sunday, Technology and Science Minister Felix Mutati said the decision was one of the means of removing rigidities on trade in the region. “The decision was arrived at two days ago. The intention basically is to remove rigidities around barriers of trade. On top of what was pronounced on the one stop border posts in order to improve on trade and remove all the barriers to trade, it is important that SADC countries, Zambia included, remove the roaming charges on calls and that will make the region one of the first if not the first to actually do that,” said Mutati....

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