{"id":179782,"date":"2016-09-15T11:12:38","date_gmt":"2016-09-15T09:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=179782"},"modified":"2016-09-15T12:24:50","modified_gmt":"2016-09-15T10:24:50","slug":"datamustfall-campaign-against-mobile-data-rip-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/179782-datamustfall-campaign-against-mobile-data-rip-off.html","title":{"rendered":"#DataMustFall campaign against mobile data rip-off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iamtbotouch\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Tbo Touch<\/strong><\/a>, CEO of TouchCentral FM, has given mobile networks 30 days to make a change to their mobile data prices.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll Networks have 30 days to make a change! We will all move our subscription to the network that cares about its customers #datamustfall,\u201d he said on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>After he launched the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/datamustfall\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>#DataMustFall campaign<\/strong><\/a>, thousands of South Africans joined &#8211; asking for more affordable mobile data prices.<\/p>\n<p>Touch said he is meeting with ICASA&#8217;s chairman to discuss high mobile data prices, and will make this a public meeting.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.702.co.za\/articles\/19420\/networks-have-30-days-to-lower-data-prices-as-datamustfall-campaign-kicks-off\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>According to 702<\/strong><\/a>, none of the network providers targeted\u00a0in the campaign have responded to the outcry.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Update &#8211; Afrihost launches competition<\/h3>\n<p>Afrihost has launched a <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.afrihost.com\/competitions\/giving-away-free-mobile-data\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>#DataMustFall competition<\/strong><\/a>, giving customers the chance to win free mobile data for life.<\/p>\n<p>It is unclear whether Afrihost is behind the #DataMustFall movement.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on mobile prices<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/179496-cell-c-to-shake-up-data-prices.html\"><strong>Cell C to shake up data prices<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tbo Touch, CEO of TouchCentral FM, has given mobile networks 30 days to make a change to their mobile data prices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":173020,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[38946,35,38944],"class_list":["post-179782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cellular","tag-datamustfall","tag-headline","tag-tbo-touch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179782"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179782"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":179786,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179782\/revisions\/179786"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}