By Daniel Itai.
Cape Town, South Africa. (News of The South) – South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa, has revealed that big data price cuts and free daily data allocation for users are being negotiated between the government and the data service providers.
“This is an important step to improve lives, bring people into the digital economy, and stimulate online businesses.
The digital economy will increasingly become a driver of growth and a creator of employment,” said Ramaphosa.
According to a statement released by the Internet Service Providers’ Association of South Aftica, initiatives by the Competition Commission and the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa to reduce the cost to communicate as well as progress with the assignment of spectrum suitable for mobile data services should lead to price relief for South Africans when buying mobile data.
South Africa has one of the most expensive data prices in Africa. The average price of one gigabyte of data is US$7.
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