POTRAZ, the local telecoms regulator is set to put into effect new minimum prices for all voice and data services provided by Zimbabwe’s mobile network operators.
According to a report in the Herald, the floor price will be 12 cents per minute for voice services and 2cents per MB for data. POTRAZ is reported to have communicated the new prices to mobile operators and they are set to come into effect from the 9th of January 2017.
The change means that some packages will become more expensive making this the latest move by POTRAZ to protect mobile operators’ revenues.
Moobile operators are supposed to revise all their products in line with the new prices and terminate bundles that don’t conform to the new minimum prices.
This means that some of the bundles that subscribers has been using as a way of accessing cheaper communications will be terminated. Products likely to be hiked include chaeper offerings like NetOne’s OneFusion and Econet’s 250 MB/$1; 1GB / $2 and 2GB/$3 Daily Bundles.