The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) has welcomed the Competition Commission’s provisional report on data pricing in South Africa and agrees with the finding that data should fall.
The report confirms recent observations and findings that the cost of data services is high in South Africa relative to peer countries, the regulator said in a statement.
“Icasa recently published tariff analysis report also confirmed that MTN and Vodacom charge higher prices for the 1GB and 3GB data bundle at R149 and R299 respectively,” it said.
Icasa said that it has also commenced a market review into mobile data services.
“The purposes of the review is to assess the effectiveness of the market for provision of mobile data services and where appropriate impose pro-competitive remedies on players with significant market power.
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