Browsing: Data must fall

If you live in South Africa, it’s hard to imagine having too much WiFi. Unless you live in the Western…

We’ve been waiting to see what MTN’s reaction to the Competition Commission’s push to decrease data costs. And, honestly, we’re…

Before Monday most South Africans would probably never have heard of competition commissioner Tembinkosi Bonakele. But after his scathing attack on the “concentration and duopoly” of Vodacom and MTN as “a bias against the poor” they’ll know who he is.

This week, mobile operators in South Africa need to comply with Icasa’s new rules concerning mobile data, but most of them are still hellbent on screwing consumers.