It is not a matter of whether data prices will fall, it is only a matter of when, Telkom\u2019s chief commercial officer Brian Armstrong has said.<\/p>\n
Speaking at the 2016 MyBroadband Conference, Armstrong explained that data from across the telecommunications industry points to a trend of constant improvement.<\/p>\n
Speeds and network capacity will increase, latency will decrease, and the cost per bit will come down.<\/p>\n
As mobile networks evolve from LTE and 4G technology to 5G in the next 4\u20135 years, Armstrong said speeds will increase tenfold, network capacity will increase a hundredfold, and latency will decrease tenfold.<\/p>\n
In terms of the price of data, Armstrong said the cost-per-bit will decrease to a fifth of what it is today.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor data to fall, the cost per bit must decrease,\u201d said Armstrong, referring to the #DataMustFall<\/strong><\/a> movement which\u00a0was mentioned ahead of his address.<\/p>\n All trends point to the fact that data prices in South Africa will continue to come down.<\/p>\n \u201cMaybe it needs to happen differently. Maybe operators need to be more innovative in how they packages services,\u201d said Armstrong.<\/p>\n Telkom\u2019s chief commercial officer has said it is inevitable that data prices in South Africa will come down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":146263,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[38946,1143,35,109],"class_list":["post-183630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadband","tag-datamustfall","tag-brian-armstrong","tag-headline","tag-telkom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183630"}],"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\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183630"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":183634,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183630\/revisions\/183634"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Now read: Be careful what you wish for with #DataMustFall<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"