The average MTN prepaid customer in South Africa now consumes more than 2GB of data every month, while a postpaid customer in the country uses about five times that \u2014 10GB.<\/p>\n
This was revealed in MTN’s interim financial results for the first half of 2021, which showed a big increase in data traffic on its network in South Africa over this period.<\/p>\n
The operator said a 30% decline in its effective data rate supported increased data usage on its network.<\/p>\n
MTN stated that data was a key driver of its strong growth in overall service revenue in the country.<\/p>\n
MTN South Africa’s service revenue hit R19.25 billion in the first half of 2021, an increase of 9.3% from R17.61 billion in the first half of 2020.<\/p>\n
Data revenue surged 12.3% from R7.03 billion to R7.9 billion.<\/p>\n
This growth was supported by a 56.5% year-on-year rise in data traffic and a year-on-year increase of approximately 56,000 active data subscribers to 15.8 million.<\/p>\n
MTN announced on Tuesday that it was further slashing data prices<\/a><\/strong> for all its customers after initially offering lower bundle prices to select subscribers.<\/p>\n The company summarised the changes to its product prices as follows:<\/p>\n These price changes will be rolling out across its sales channels in the coming weeks, MTN said.<\/p>\n The table below provides a summary of MTN’s new data prices.<\/p>\n\n