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Cashless customers who send 18-million text messages a day asking wealthier friends to call them back could be axed from Vodacom’s network if the interconnection fee for delivering the incoming calls are cut, said Vodacom yesterday. MTN has also warned that it could not afford to serve the low-spending customers who send 12-million “call me” messages every day on its network if the interconnection fees are slashed. The protests made by the two dominant cellular operators have put the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) in a difficult position at hearings to decide whether to force down the fees that they charge each other when routing calls between rival networks.