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Supa Mandiwanzira has suspended controversial data charges with immediate effect
Information, Communication and Technology and Courier Services minister Supa Mandiwanzira has with immediate effect suspended the controversial new data charges, bulawayo24 can reveal.
The Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Potraz) agreed to a proposal by mobile operators to increase prices but the Minister of ICT said that while it is conceivable that the price of data may go up, “the margin by which the prices have gone up is shockingly high and can only reflect insensitivity to fellow Zimbabweans and gluttonous corporate greed.”
In a statement, Mandiwanzira said: “unreasonable data prices, especially in a high literacy country like ours, undermine our huge investments in human capital, broadband infrastructure and the ability to attract investment.”
Mandiwanzira also called on mobile network operators who had increased their tariffs to refund their customers for the data used in the past two days. By Thobekile Zhou. source Bulawayo 24