September 13, 2005 – Vodacom today issued a response to the retraction from the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) concerning the widely quoted discussion document on mobile prices published in the Government Gazette of 28 July 2005. In the retraction, published on ICASA’s website, the authority, ‘regrets the unfortunate errors and any inconvenience caused to operators and interested parties’ and refers specifically to comparative tables for countries like Hungary; the Czech Republic, Switzerland and Spain.