{"id":216116,"date":"2017-06-19T14:56:30","date_gmt":"2017-06-19T12:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=216116"},"modified":"2017-06-19T14:58:21","modified_gmt":"2017-06-19T12:58:21","slug":"datamustfall-is-back-and-youre-all-still-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/216116-datamustfall-is-back-and-youre-all-still-wrong.html","title":{"rendered":"#DataMustFall is back &#8211; and you\u2019re all still wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MTN recently\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/215580-mtn-cancels-free-unlimited-twitter.html\"><strong>cancelled<\/strong><\/a> its free unlimited Twitter service, which caused a resurgence in the #DataMustFall campaign.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDue to abuse of the free service, we have had to cap usage to 100MB per day,\u201d said MTN. The cap was subsequently raised to 500MB.<\/p>\n<p>Once you hit the cap, you are charged normal data rates.<\/p>\n<p>The tweets below detail the resuscitation of the #DataMustFall campaign today.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>The #DataMustFall tag is trending on Twitter, with South Africans weighing in on the price of data bundles.<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/DataMustFall?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#DataMustFall<\/a> hayi angekhe MTN is robbing us <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Z8RQYtWBHN\">pic.twitter.com\/Z8RQYtWBHN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Siphe\ud83d\udc51Mzimba (@MzimbaSiphe) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MzimbaSiphe\/status\/876684457088036864?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 19, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Some are remembering the days of R60 BIS.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/tokollo_ngobeni\/status\/876686835229106176<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Others are bragging that their network has cheaper data.<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DataMustFall?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#DataMustFall<\/a> here&#39;s how to get 150mb for R10 at Telkom.<\/p>\n<p>RT to save a life. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yTXgaJ99tP\">pic.twitter.com\/yTXgaJ99tP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Mans not Jabu (@MalumeJabulani) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MalumeJabulani\/status\/876693945748729856?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 19, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Inaccurate claims are also doing the rounds again.<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MTNza?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@MTNza<\/a> it was disgusting of you to buy T Bo Touch&#8230;&#8230;.at the cost of the masses <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DataMustFall?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#DataMustFall<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9pnto1kVkh\">pic.twitter.com\/9pnto1kVkh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NtsikiMazwaiMedia (@ntsikimazwai) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ntsikimazwai\/status\/876655175993352193?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 19, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>As part of the campaign, an image is being circulated claiming that local data prices for 1GB are R149 &#8211; 14-times more than in India.<\/p>\n<p>South African data prices are more expensive than the other countries listed above, but the figures quoted are false.<\/p>\n<p>Firstly, the comparison ignores Telkom, which offers 1GB data bundles for R99. It also ignores Afrihost and Crystal Web, which offer 1GB for R99 on MTN and Vodacom\u2019s networks respectively.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/180730-datamustfall-mobile-prices-misleading.html\"><strong>MyBroadband previously investigated<\/strong><\/a> data prices, and the cheapest prepaid mobile data we could find in India was R50 for 1GB. In Nigeria, it was R43 for 1GB.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/181122-how-expensive-south-africas-mobile-data-prices-really-are-datamustfall.html\"><strong>Tariffic also performed a comparison<\/strong><\/a>, looking at 1GB, 2GB, and 3GB data prices in Brazil, Russia, India, China, Australia, and Kenya.<\/p>\n<p>Africa Check also investigated the claim that South Africans <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/184396-how-datamustfall-was-a-load-of-nonsense.html\"><strong>spend 24.7% of their income on data<\/strong><\/a>, and found the claim to be incorrect.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/columns\/189874-datamustfall-was-a-sham-and-touch-central-sold-out.html\">#DataMustFall was a sham and Touch Central sold out<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MTN recently cancelled its free unlimited Twitter service, which caused a resurgence in the #DataMustFall campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":173020,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[38946,35],"class_list":["post-216116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cellular","tag-datamustfall","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216116"}],"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=216116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216126,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216116\/revisions\/216126"}],"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=216116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}