{"id":156353,"date":"2017-02-09T11:42:36","date_gmt":"2017-02-09T09:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=156353"},"modified":"2017-02-09T11:42:36","modified_gmt":"2017-02-09T09:42:36","slug":"universal-mobile-data-tariffs-on-the-cards-for-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/156353\/universal-mobile-data-tariffs-on-the-cards-for-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Universal mobile data tariffs on the cards for South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Communications Regulators\u2019 Association of Southern Africa (CRASA) is considering a proposal to create a set of universal mobile data tariffs for the SADC region by 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Richard Makgotlho\u00a0from ICASA, who chairs the CRASA subcommittee\u00a0on electronic communications, confirmed the plans.<\/p>\n<p>The Southern African Development Community (SADC), spans 15 member states \u2013 including South Africa, Mauritius, Tanzania, Botswana,\u00a0Zambia, and Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n<p>The aim of the\u00a0regulations is\u00a0to ensure mobile data charges are uniform and affordable in all SADC countries.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Zimbabwean publication <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/source.co.zw\/2017\/01\/regional-body-says-to-set-universal-mobile-data-tariffs-by-2019\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Source<\/a><\/strong>, Makgotlho said they want to\u00a0encourage mobile operators to reduce data and voice prices.<\/p>\n<p>If they can\u2019t do it on their own, however, CRASA will\u00a0create regulations that force them to do so.<\/p>\n<p>Makgotlho told MyBroadband the proposal\u00a0for the\u00a0regulations will be discussed at CRASA\u2019s next AGM, which\u00a0will be held in South Africa\u00a0in March.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/196038-universal-mobile-data-tariffs-for-southern-africa-planned.html\" target=\"_blank\">MyBroadband<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/155007\/155007\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hisense to sponsor Lions Rugby<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Communications Regulators\u2019 Association of Southern Africa (CRASA) is considering a proposal to create a set of universal mobile data tariffs for the SADC region by 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":57621,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-156353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-telecommunications","tag-active"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156353"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":156363,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156353\/revisions\/156363"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}