South Africans are protesting the exorbitant data costs in the country.
A South African radio personality Tbo Touch ( known as Thabo Molefe) started the campaign which gave mobile networks 30 days to reduce the charges, an ultimatum that ended today. Tbo termed the data charges ad ‘daylight robbery’ and has called for them to be halved.
A recently released ICT Africa report says lower-income South Africans are spending 20% of their income on one gigabyte of data — four times that recommended by the International Telecommunication Union according to Mail and Guardian.
The ICT Africa report. “South Africa’s cheapest 1 gig data places it at 16th of out 47 African countries assessed. Tanzania has the cheapest one gig for $0.89 in comparison to South Africa priced at $5.26. In comparison to other large markets, Egypt, Kenya and Nigeria have lower data prices than South Africa.”
Here are some tweets on the campaign
The cost of data should have fallen 30 days ago, so it's only right that we intensify the #DataMustFall call! @realBlackCoffee @iamtbotouch
— PurpleMilk ⚔️ (@Purple_milked) October 19, 2016
The darkest moments of my LIFE " you have left with 4:59 MB " #DataMustFall
— Bad Influencer 🇷🇺® (@Landless_Native) October 19, 2016
I can't even stream a study tutorial on YouTube #DataMustFall
— Bad Influencer 🇷🇺® (@Landless_Native) October 19, 2016
Salute ✊🏾My Big Brother! When S.Africans unite and say #datamustfall they mean it! 30 is over it's our turn now https://t.co/Vx1ONzAnYm
— Tbo Touch (@iamtbotouch) October 19, 2016
https://twitter.com/ChristoThurston/status/788675688542928896?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
